Your AI Agent Is Only as Good as Your Types

The moment you start coding with an AI agent, you notice something odd: the value of a top-tier IDE like PhpStorm suddenly drops, while the value of solid type checking, say with PHPStan, shoots up. Two years ago that would've sounded like heresy. Today it's closer to practical advice on how to write better code. The IDE was for humans, analysis is for machines We loved the IDE for its…