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Thinking Elixir 303 - The Taming of the Slop
Episode 303 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation publishing its 2026 board election candidates with voting now open, a new GitHub organization called Elixir-Vibe launching with tools to detect and fix AI-generated Elixir “slop” — including ExSlop and the related semantic linter Credence, erlang_python 3.0.0 arriving with true parallelism by embedding CPython into the BEAM as a first-class citizen, ElixirConf EU 2026 videos beginning to drop including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, and more!
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