Praia Labs has the numbers on Phoenix version and Bandit adoption, Sobelow 0.15 is out, and there’s a new book, Elixir for Finance. We also cover Tidewave Connect, a couple of Credo plugins for cleaning up AI-generated code, Andrea Leopardi’s visual explainer on GenStage demand, and we argue about whether AI is quietly making us worse at our jobs.
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FOLLOW UPS — 00:00
- Audio. We’ll do better.
- No interviews on this podcast (for now). But thanks for reaching out.
NEWS — 02:22
- Praia Labs — Phoenix version and Bandit adoption
- Sobelow 0.15
- New Elixir book: Elixir for Finance — Dr. Dimitrios Koutmos, Alex Koutmos, Hugo Baraúna
- LLamex — a Credo plugin to clean up Ash-related LLM-isms
- Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident
- Tip: Impeccable for design work with LLMs
- Dokploy v0.30.0 released, with nice-to-haves
BLOG — 12:03
- Andrea Leopardi — GenStage Demand Visualized
- Arjun Gillard — The Elixir Hiring Paradox: notes from ElixirConf EU
2026 - Tidewave — A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor
- Mike Zornek — An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir
Dependencies - João Paulo Abreu — Learning Elixir: Alias, Import, Require, and
Use - DeClaude — How AI text watermarking works
- 28:36 — PSA: Don’t generate blogs with AI
MEETUPS & CONFERENCES — 30:47
- UnConference US (Sep 9) + ElixirConf US (Workshops Sep 9 – Conf Sep 10–11)
- Goatmire / AshConf / Hackathon (Workshops Sep 28–29 – Conf Sep 30 – Oct 2 – AshConf & Hackathon Oct 3)
- UnConference EU (Oct 20) + CodeBEAM EU (Workshops Oct 20 – Conf Oct 21–22)
JOKE — 32:37
DISCUSSION — 33:11
- 33:11 — How will the work of a senior engineer look two years from now?
- 45:59 — Staying in the loop: Grill Me, being the driver, and a better code-review skill
- 51:31 — The mental health crisis no one is talking about
- Syntax FM developer survey
- Watch on YouTube
- How much genuine enjoyment or flow do you get from coding now compared to before you started using AI heavily? 54%
less or somewhat less — 26% more or somewhat more - Do you feel your actual coding skills are sharpening, holding steady, or diminishing? 60% diminishing or somewhat
diminishing — 13% sharpening or somewhat sharpening (careful: coding skills, not experience as a developer) - How often do you feel you should be producing more because AI makes it possible, even when you don’t want to? 65%
often or daily — 18% never or rarely - Strongest correlation between questions: coding enjoyment vs. perceived coding skill change
