Your Laravel Queries Are Lying to You

How many times does Product::latest() appear in your codebase?

If the answer is more than once, you're not DRY — you're just organized duplication. Every repeated query entry point is another interpretation of how that query should behave. Inconsistencies creep in silently, and future changes become a scavenger hunt.

Atomic Query Construction (AQC) fixes this with one rule:

Every model gets exactly one query entry point, inside a dedicated execution class.

// Every. Single. Time.
(new GetProducts())->handle($params);

Filters, sorting, pagination — all controlled through params. One place to change, one place to debug, zero drift.

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