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Thinking Elixir 252 - Riding the Tidewave of AI-Enhanced Phoenix
Episode 252 of Thinking Elixir. News includes Tidewave, a new Phoenix MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access application runtime, Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app with LiveView hosted IDE features, a new GitHub Action for submitting Elixir dependencies to enhance security, ExMeralda.chat, a community chatbot for querying Hex packages, updates on Software Mansion’s LiveDebugger v0.2.0 coming in May, mix test.interactive for enhanced ExUnit testing workflows, and information about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers, and more!
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