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Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

liampulles wrote: post #228

This is very cool! I will say though, my spidey senses kick in when looking at stuff like this, and make me wonder about how much I'm going to get vendored in here. Could I use it develop a site off fly.io? If the answer is no, then I'd say this is cool and I think useful for people who need something quick and simple and out of the box, but not something I would ever use on a serious production project.

The answer is yes. What would you say then?

There’s a “clone Git repo” thing in the left side bar, use that to clone the project locally, mix deps.get, mix phx.serve and you’re up. You can deploy this anywhere you want.

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

kuon wrote: post #231

I really wish I could move to those nice new editors, but as a vim user I just feel paralyzed when I cannot use vim bindings. And all "emulations" I tried are just incomplete.

You can pull the repo, tweak it locally with Vim, push it back and ask the LLM to work on top of that. No need to use the built in IDE if you don’t like it.

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by [deleted] »

spiderice wrote: post #38
erichocean wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most languages require maintenance. Some languages—Clojure is a good example—have packages from 10 years ago, entirely unmaintained, that still work great because no maintenance is needed.

In my experience, Elixir is very much on that end of the spectrum as well. I'm wondering if GGP just considers packages that don't have updates for 6 months as "unmaintained" or "dead" because they come from Javascript world where everything is, well... you know.

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Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by sodapopcan »

mervz wrote: post #142
mrcwinn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worried it might fall behind… further? I love LiveView, Phoenix, Elixir, OTP. But the ecosystem is a wasteland of abandoned packages. If Phoenix.new helps solve that problem, I’m all for the effort. But otherwise, the sole focus of the community leaders of Elixir should be squarely and exactly focused on creating the incentives and dynamics to grow the base. Compare, for example, Mastra in TypeScript or PydanticAI in…

This is such a weird thing to say and I see it all of the time. It sucks people have been tricked into thinking a library must be updated every 2 weeks in order to still be relevant. You think just because an author bumps the version number of a library it's somehow better than a library that is considered complete? It boggles my mind that people actually think this way.

You must never have been a Ruby developer. “I notice this library hasn’t been updated in 8 days, is it still being maintained?”

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by colecut »

I am a long time php dev who has been interested in learning elixir/phoenix for a while but never quite motivated enough.

I saw this and thought, if this doesn't get me to give it a go, nothing will.

Less than 45 minutes after signing up for fly.io, I have a multi-room tic tac toe game deployed.

https://tic-tac-toe-cyber.fly.dev/

I had it build the game, opting for a single room at first to see if that worked. Then I had it add multiple rooms on a different git branch in case that didn't work. It worked great.

I learned very little about elixir, phoenix, or deploying to fly.io up to this point, and I already have a nice looking app deployed and running.

I know a lot of devs will hate that this is possible, and it is up to me now to look at the steps it took to create this and really understand what is happening, which are broken down extremely simply for me...

I will do this because I want to learn. I bet a lot of people won't bother to do that. But those people never would have had apps in the first place and now they can. If they are creating fun experiences and not banking apps, I think that is still great.

You guys have been releasing amazing things for years only to be poorly replicated in other languages years later.. but you really outdid yourselves here.

I'm blown away.

edit: is there a way to see how much of my credits were used by building this?

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by jonahx »

colecut wrote: post #245

I am a long time php dev who has been interested in learning elixir/phoenix for a while but never quite motivated enough. I saw this and thought, if this doesn't get me to give it a go, nothing will. Less than 45 minutes after signing up for fly.io, I have a multi-room tic tac toe game deployed. https://tic-tac-toe-cyber.fly.dev/ I had it build the game, opting for a single room at first to see if that worked. Then I…

Was the graphic design created from prompts too? It's surprisingly nice, especially considering you spent 45 minutes on it.

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by colecut »

jonahx wrote: post #246
colecut wrote: post #245

I am a long time php dev who has been interested in learning elixir/phoenix for a while but never quite motivated enough. I saw this and thought, if this doesn't get me to give it a go, nothing will. Less than 45 minutes after signing up for fly.io, I have a multi-room tic tac toe game deployed. https://tic-tac-toe-cyber.fly.dev/ I had it build the game, opting for a single room at first to see if that worked. Then I…

Was the graphic design created from prompts too? It's surprisingly nice, especially considering you spent 45 minutes on it.

I told it that I wanted a two player tic tac toe game.

it give me a selection of "styles" and I chose neon retro.. I probably could have been more creative and typed in my own suggestion.

Other than that, I said absolutely nothing about how I wanted the layout.

It came up with the idea of listing all active games on the homepage, with the number of players in each, all on its own.

I went from "I want a two player tic tac toe game" to having one, and then added multiple rooms, and deployed it all in under 45 minutes, with little input other than that..

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by debian3 »

jostylr wrote: post #219
indigodaddy wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you are on the $20 Zed plan? Has the 500 prompts/mo been sufficient for you? I'm debating between the Zed and Claude $20 plans-- no doubt I'd get better value from Zed's?

I have used Zed's plane with Claude and also Claude Code. They are very different experiences. Zed's agent work is very much a set it, go away, review, give some tips to it, iterate. As long as you use the Sonnet and absolutely avoid the burn mode (formerly max mode), it should do a lot of work for you. The main limitation I hit is the context window. As the codebase gets larger, it takes more context for it to get g…

Try claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

Re: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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Post by chrismccord »

colecut wrote: post #245

I am a long time php dev who has been interested in learning elixir/phoenix for a while but never quite motivated enough. I saw this and thought, if this doesn't get me to give it a go, nothing will. Less than 45 minutes after signing up for fly.io, I have a multi-room tic tac toe game deployed. https://tic-tac-toe-cyber.fly.dev/ I had it build the game, opting for a single room at first to see if that worked. Then I…

This is amazing on multiple fronts! I reset your usage, so the next round is on us! We shipped credits the day before launch, so usage UI is still TBD, but should be out next week. Thanks for the sharing your experience!
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