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Peter Ullrich and Gus Workman

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  1. hace 3 días

    003 - Phoenix Adoption, Sobelow, and Whether AI Is Making Us Worse Developers

    FOLLOW UPS — 00:00   - Audio. We'll do better.  - No interviews on this podcast (for now). But thanks for reaching out.   NEWS — 02:22   - Praia Labs — Phoenix version and Bandit adoption    https://www.praialabs.com/phoenix-version-adoption    https://www.praialabs.com/bandit-adoption   - Sobelow 0.15    https://github.com/sobelow/sobelow/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md   - New Elixir book: Elixir for Finance — Dr. Dimitrios Koutmos, Alex Koutmos, Hugo Baraúna    https://www.financialelixir.dev/#table-of-contents   - LLamex — a Credo plugin to clean up Ash-related LLM-isms    https://github.com/dmitriid/llamex    https://github.com/Jump-App/credo_checks    https://github.com/elixir-vibe/ex_slop   - Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY   - Tip: Impeccable for design work with LLMs    https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable   - Dokploy v0.30.0 released, with nice-to-haves    https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/releases/tag/v0.30.0   BLOG — 12:03   - Andrea Leopardi — GenStage Demand Visualized    https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/genstage-demand-visualized   - Arjun Gillard — The Elixir Hiring Paradox: notes from ElixirConf EU 2026    https://agtalent.co.uk/the-elixir-hiring-paradox-notes-from-elixirconf-eu-2026   - Tidewave — A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor    https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-connect   - Mike Zornek — An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir Dependencies    https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/elixir-dependency-update-skill   - João Paulo Abreu — Learning Elixir: Alias, Import, Require, and Use    https://dev.to/abreujp/learning-elixir-alias-import-require-and-use-2hk2   - DeClaude — How AI text watermarking works    https://declaude.org/watermarking/   - 28:36 — PSA: Don't generate blogs with AI   MEETUPS & CONFERENCES — 30:47   - UnConference US (Sep 9) + ElixirConf US (Workshops Sep 9 – Conf Sep 10–11)    https://luma.com/erlef    https://elixirconf.com   - Goatmire / AshConf / Hackathon (Workshops Sep 28–29 – Conf Sep 30 – Oct 2 – AshConf & Hackathon Oct 3)    https://www.goatmire.com/    https://luma.com/wz4z0iz6    https://luma.com/qm8gs6j4   - UnConference EU (Oct 20) + CodeBEAM EU (Workshops Oct 20 – Conf Oct 21–22)    https://luma.com/erlef    https://codebeameurope.com/   JOKE — 32:37   DISCUSSION — 33:11   - 33:11 — How will the work of a senior engineer look two years from now?    I'm done using AI    https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/    Don't be a meat proxy    https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/   - 45:59 — Staying in the loop: Grill Me, being the driver, and a better code-review skill   - 51:31 — The mental health crisis no one is talking about    https://ai-health.syntax.fm/    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn1Fnfn0k     How much genuine enjoyment or flow do you get from coding now compared to before you started using AI heavily?    54% less or somewhat less — 26% more or somewhat more     Do you feel your actual coding skills are sharpening, holding steady, or diminishing?    60% diminishing or somewhat diminishing — 13% sharpening or somewhat sharpening    (careful: coding skills, not experience as a developer)     How often do you feel you should be producing more because AI makes it possible, even when you don't want to?    65% often or daily — 18% never or rarely     Strongest correlation between questions: coding enjoyment vs. perceived coding skill change

  2. 7 ago

    002 - OTP Security Patches, Fly.io Pivots, and AI Code Copyright

    FOLLOW UPS Deep dish is indeed pizza not a pie. (Is it though?)Hologram is written in ElixirNEWS OTP Emergency Patch releases for OTP 27, 28, 29 fix a bunch of vulnerabilities https://elixirforum.com/t/patch-package-otp-29-0-4-released/76127https://elixirforum.com/t/patch-package-otp-28-5-0-4-released/76128https://elixirforum.com/t/patch-package-otp-27-3-4-15-released/76129Gleam 1.18 releasedhttps://gleam.run/news/a-field-day-for-gleams-language-server/ElixirConf US 2025 Talks are being published on YouTubehttps://forum.elixirforum.com/tag/elixirconf/147Version 0.3.0 of the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Barauna is outhttps://www.programmingnerves.dev/https://bsky.app/profile/akoutmos.bsky.social/post/3mrpthmrm6k2vBLOGS Mike Zornek - Shimming your way off a dead Elixir dependencyhttps://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/7/shim-off-a-dead-elixir-dependencyJohanna Larson - Distributed rate limiter with HRW in Elixirhttps://jola.dev/posts/distributed-ratelimiter-with-hrwPaul Ricks - Profiling Rust NIFs in Elixir (with hotpath)https://blog.smaller-infinity.com/posts/profiling-rust-nifs-in-elixirJacob Swanner - Batching Phoenix LiveView Updateshttps://jacobswanner.com/development/2026/batching-phoenix-liveview-updates/Paraxial - Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safehttps://paraxial.io/blog/ai-spamGerman Velasco - Diverge then converge with LLMshttps://www.germanvelasco.com/blog/diverge-then-converge-with-llmsPSA - Don’t write on mediumMEETUPS & CONFERENCES Nerves Meetup - online via Zoom, this week (August 12)UnConference before ElixirConf US (Sept 9) and CodeBEAM EU (Oct 20)https://luma.com/erlefGoatmire - Varberg, Sweden Sept 28 - Oct 3https://goatmire.comDISCUSSION Deployment strategies in 2026 - Fly.io shifting focus:https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/https://community.fly.io/t/will-the-apps-and-machine-platform-start-winding-down/28380https://github.com/dmkenney/xamalhttps://coolify.io/What will more intelligence actually do for us?https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-more-intelligence-actuallyGCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Caseshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Declining-AI-Contributions

  3. 27 jul

    001 - Redesigns, Conferences, and Rogue Agents

    NEWS Hex 2.5.0 - mix deps.get vuln warningshttps://github.com/hexpm/hex/releases/tag/v2.5.0Elixir-lang redesignhttps://elixir-lang.org/Elixirforum redesignStackoverflow 2026 Developer Survey is now openhttps://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/23/the-2026-developer-survey-is-now-open-for-human-developers-only/Filipe Cabaco announces Ex-Tauri https://github.com/filipecabaco/ex_tauriAugmental Mouthpad launches - alternative input device for hands-free controlhttps://www.augmental.tech/news/mouthpad-and-vox-launchBlog postsBart from Hologramhttps://hologram.page/blog/backing-hologramRyan Zidago - Each test should own its setuphttps://ryanzidago.com/posts/self-contained-tests-in-elixir/Mike Zornek - Guarding against AI drifthttps://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/7/guarding-against-ai-drift/?utm_source=elixir-forum&utm_campaign=guarding-against-ai-driftJohanna Larsson - Elixir Cluster 101https://jola.dev/posts/elixir-cluster-101https://incident.io/blog/dont-add-a-read-replica-until-youve-read-thisMeetups and ConferencesNerves Meetup EU Aug 12, 19 CEST.  https://nervesmeetup.eu/meetup/peter-ullrich-dont-get-pwned-by-mythosGoatmire - Sept 28th to Oct 3rd (Mon-Sat)AshConf + Hackathon - Oct 3nd (Sat)ElixirConf US - Sept 10-11thCodeBeam EU - Oct 21-22DISCUSSION Codeberg blocks LLM reposhttps://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.htmlhttps://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/OpenAI says it hacked HuggingFacehttps://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/What it means to be a mathematician when AI does the mathhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics

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