279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes
Thinking Elixir Podcast
Outro
Hosts wrap up the episode, thank listeners, and sign off with final remarks.
News includes Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1.0 support, a new AI-powered terminal emulator called exterm_ai, Horde joining a new GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, SmartLogic's case study using Elixir for real-time air quality monitoring, GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript becoming the most used language, and Mark shares his detailed AI development workflow that compresses 2 weeks of work into 2 days by using coding agents as a Software Architect, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/279
Elixir Community News
- https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
- https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy – Chris McCord releases FlyDeploy - enables hot code upgrades for Elixir applications on Fly.io without restarts or downtime
- https://nitter.net/sleipni_r/status/1986791040607481930 – Elixir GRPC library updated to v0.11.4 with beautiful interactive Livebook documentation and new stream features including effects and map_error
- https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.7.0 – ErrorTracker v0.7.0 released with Igniter installer, LiveView 1.0 support, better MariaDB support, and security updates
- https://github.com/metehan/exterm_ai – exterm_ai - an advanced web-based terminal emulator with built-in AI assistance powered by OpenRouter, like a web-based warp.dev
- https://github.com/elixir-horde/horde – Horde - distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt
- https://github.com/elixir-horde – New @elixir_horde GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, fault-tolerant supervision, and global process registration
- https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3m52kusb7ek2x – PSA for Zed editor users about Expert LSP not having versioned releases yet
- https://gist.github.com/dbernheisel/b533b289fd5ed13f8333ae92a71c9606 – David's guide for configuring Zed to manually update Expert LSP
- https://bsky.app/profile/smartlogic.io/post/3m5ecck4h3j2q – SmartLogic announcement about ICRT case study
- https://smartlogic.io/case-studies/icrt – SmartLogic case study on using Elixir to help researchers with real-time air quality monitoring and alerts for residents
- https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes – Article covering the top 3 LiveView form mistakes - slow laggy forms, brittle UI/database coupling, and valid data that can't submit
- https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang – Article about falling in love with Erlang
- https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/why-i-chose-phoenix-liveview-over-rails-laravel-and-next-js – Article explaining why the author chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
- https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/ – GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript overtaking Python and JavaScript, 36M new developers joined, and AI adoption accelerating
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com
Discussion Resources
- Mark shares his AI development workflow using Claude Code and Cursor, going from PRD to implementation plan to working code with tests in 2 days instead of 2 weeks
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULfEcPR0Gc – Y Combinator podcast about why enterprise is bad at AI, discussing the MIT report on AI initiative failures
- https://github.com/maxim-ist/elixir-architect – New Elixir Architect Claude Code skill for AI-assisted development
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