252: Riding the Tidewave of AI-Enhanced Phoenix

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https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg – Introduction video for Tidewave, a Phoenix/Rails MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access your application's runtime.

https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49 – Hexdocs PR enabling documentation context for Tidewave, allowing AI assistants to access app documentation without manual copying.

https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896 – Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app that writes code.

https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298 – Chris McCord demonstrating an interactive LiveView hosted IDE with realtime terminal support synced across browsers/devices.

https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22 – EEF announcement about the "mix-dependency-submission" GitHub Action for submitting Elixir/Mix dependencies.

https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission – GitHub repo for the mix-dependency-submission tool that calculates dependencies for Mix and submits them to GitHub's API.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api – GitHub documentation about the Dependency Submission API used by the mix-dependency-submission tool.

https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start – ExMeralda.chat, a chatbot for hex.pm packages from bitcrowd.dev, using their Elixir RAG library.

https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/ – Blog post explaining ExMeralda, a community chatbot for Hex packages that demonstrates RAG systems with LLMs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebugger_v020_upcoming_features_part_1/ – Reddit post from Software Mansion about upcoming features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0, expected in early May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E – Full interview discussing LiveDebugger in more depth.

https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – mix test.interactive - an interactive test runner for ExUnit tests that enhances testing workflows.

https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300 – Twitter post highlighting mix test.interactive's features including running tests by names, rerunning on file save, and more.

https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 – Information about upcoming Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board elections with important dates.

https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi's blog post about reworking singleton architecture to leverage async tests in ExUnit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by Jason Stiebs on FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by James Isenhart on 'OpenTelemetry: From Desire to Dashboard'

https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/ – Article about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers by exploiting AI hallucinations of package names.