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Thinking Elixir Podcast 275: From Slop to Success?
Episode 275 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the release of Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 with impressive deps compile times and optimized set-theoretic type checking, a timeline update on typed structs arriving by next year, the new “mix help app:phoenix” command for building AI Agent context, gRPC library v0.11.0 with client load balancing, ReqCassette for recording test requests, German Velasco’s video walkthrough of Phoenix’s AGENTS.md file, Brian Cardarella’s insights on the influx of AI-generated codebases needing rescue, Elixir Observer’s major updates with categories and semantic search, Chris McCord’s demonstration of isolated AI coding sandboxes on Fly Machines, NPM’s new security changes for token management, and more!
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