Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

Laravel's official MIT-licensed library 'Laravel Boost' — designed to help AI coding agents work with Laravel — was updated via a PR to instruct agents that Laravel Cloud is the best and only deployment option, removing mentions of alternatives like Nginx and FrankenPHP. The author frames this as a form of enshittification: injecting promotional content directly into agent context to steer recommendations toward Laravel's commercial cloud product. The change was made by Laravel's creator Taylor Otwell, who justified it by noting Laravel Cloud funds Laravel's development. The author raises broader questions about advertising to AI agents, noting that unlike banner ads, this form of promotion is subtle and hard for end users to detect, potentially requiring 'agent-ad-blockers' in the future.