Unused APIs, Passport testing traps, and local AI bottlenecks

In this episode, Michael shares details from a major internal platform shift at work, including the decision to completely remove an underused public JSON API and rebuild integrations around real customer needs instead of hypothetical use cases. The conversation dives deep into Laravel Passport, Sanctum, OAuth flows, request authorisation, and some tricky edge cases around testing authenticated APIs. Jake then broadens the conversation into AI infrastructure, local model hosting, security implications of autonomous AI systems, NVIDIA hardware demand, and the future potential of photonic processors as a solution to the growing power and cooling bottlenecks facing AI workloads. Show links Laravel Passport Laravel Sanctum Laravel Passport actingAs testing helpers PHP enums PHPStan Larastan Zapier Claude NVIDIA DGX systems Photonic processors

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Unused APIs, Passport testing traps, and local AI bottlenecks is an episode from North Meets South Web Podcast by Michael Dyrynda.

This episode is 36:17 long.

This episode was published on May 7, 2026.

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