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Thinking Elixir 279 - Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes

Episode 279 of Thinking Elixir. 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!

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I’m grateful to Mark for sharing his AI dev workflow in this episode. I haven’t used AI tools to build anything noteworthy in the Elixir ecosystem yet, but it’s encouraging to hear others are having success.

Chris McCord’s keynote at ElixirConf US 2025 (back in September) was my first real exposure to the power of building with AI and Elixir, and I’m eager to ~~soak up~~ bookmark as much as I can WRT Elixir + AI best practices. As an Elixir newbie, I think I still need a couple of more months of focusing on the fundamentals before trying to leverage AI to build production-ready software :slight_smile:

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