Laravel and Symfony projects are great places to use AI agents. Not because PHP is "easy" (it isn't), but because PHP backends carry a lot of real business logic. Controllers, services, console commands, queue jobs, Doctrine repositories, Eloquent models, event listeners, validators, policies, migrations, and tests all coexist in one repo, and the relationships between them are exactly the kind of context that's expensive for a human to load and cheap for a careful agent to map.
The best use of an agent in a PHP codebase is not "generate me random code." It's closer to:
Help me understand this backend flow.
Help me protect behavior.
Help me find missing tests.
