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Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
I'm a little surprised by the sentiment here that LLMs don't do well with Elixir. I've had a pretty good experience using AI tools on Phoenix/Elixir side projects.
Which LLMs do you use that you find are best with Elixir/Phoenix?
Phoenix creator here. I'm happy to answer any questions about this! Also worth noting that phoenix.new is a global Elixir cluster that spans the planet. If you sign up in Australia, you get an IDE and agent placed in Sydney.
Beautiful demo! How do I build agents like this? Does anyone know any great resources to learn how to design agents? Tool agnostic resources would be awesome.
Elixir is particularly well suited here. In Elixir this is a genserver doing http posts and reacting to the token stream. The LiveView chat gets messages from the genserver agent regardless of where it is on the planet, and the agent also communicates with the phoenix channel websocket talking to the IDE machines with regular messages, again anywhere they are on the planet.
I talk about this quite a bit in my ElixirConfEU talk and distill things down: https://youtu.be/ojL_VHc4gLk?si=MzQmz-vofWxWDrmo&t=1040
I'm a little surprised by the sentiment here that LLMs don't do well with Elixir. I've had a pretty good experience using AI tools on Phoenix/Elixir side projects.
LLMs are definitely a lot better at Elixir than they used to be - the gap has closed somewhat. I still perceive a gap though, especially when trying to do more complicated things in Phoenix and LiveView (as opposed to just raw Elixir.) Which LLMs do you use that you find are best with Elixir/Phoenix?
I guess I should also note that I haven't really used LiveView much.
I've been daydreaming of an agentic framework that maximally exploits BEAM. This isn't that, but maybe jido[0] is what I'm looking for.
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
This is such a weird meme, Claude crushes elixir especially a fullstack app in liveview
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
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I know it's early days, but here's a must-have wish list for me: - ability to run locally somehow. I have my own IDE, tools etc. Browser IDEs are definitely not something I use willingly. - ability to get all code, and deploy it myself, anywhere --- Edit: forgot to add. I like that every video in Elixir/Phoenix space is the spiritual successor to "15-minute rails blog" from 20 year ago. No marketing bullshit, just pe…
You can push and pull code to and from local desktop already: hamburger menu => copy git clone/copy git push. You could also have it use GitHub and do PRs for a codex/devin style workflows. Running phoenix.new itself locally isn't something we're planning, but opening the runtime for SSH access is high on our list. Then you could do remote ssh access with local vscode or whatever.
So no plans to open the source code?