003 - Phoenix Adoption, Sobelow, and Whether AI Is Making Us Worse Developers
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 https://www.praialabs.com/phoenix-version-adoption https://www.praialabs.com/bandit-adoption - Sobelow 0.15 https://github.com/sobelow/sobelow/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md - New Elixir book: Elixir for Finance — Dr. Dimitrios Koutmos, Alex Koutmos, Hugo Baraúna https://www.financialelixir.dev/#table-of-contents - LLamex — a Credo plugin to clean up Ash-related LLM-isms https://github.com/dmitriid/llamex https://github.com/Jump-App/credo_checks https://github.com/elixir-vibe/ex_slop - Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY - Tip: Impeccable for design work with LLMs https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable - Dokploy v0.30.0 released, with nice-to-haves https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/releases/tag/v0.30.0 BLOG — 12:03 - Andrea Leopardi — GenStage Demand Visualized https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/genstage-demand-visualized - Arjun Gillard — The Elixir Hiring Paradox: notes from ElixirConf EU 2026 https://agtalent.co.uk/the-elixir-hiring-paradox-notes-from-elixirconf-eu-2026 - Tidewave — A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-connect - Mike Zornek — An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir Dependencies https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/elixir-dependency-update-skill - João Paulo Abreu — Learning Elixir: Alias, Import, Require, and Use https://dev.to/abreujp/learning-elixir-alias-import-require-and-use-2hk2 - DeClaude — How AI text watermarking works https://declaude.org/watermarking/ - 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) https://luma.com/erlef https://elixirconf.com - Goatmire / AshConf / Hackathon (Workshops Sep 28–29 – Conf Sep 30 – Oct 2 – AshConf & Hackathon Oct 3) https://www.goatmire.com/ https://luma.com/wz4z0iz6 https://luma.com/qm8gs6j4 - UnConference EU (Oct 20) + CodeBEAM EU (Workshops Oct 20 – Conf Oct 21–22) https://luma.com/erlef https://codebeameurope.com/ JOKE — 32:37 DISCUSSION — 33:11 - 33:11 — How will the work of a senior engineer look two years from now? I'm done using AI https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/ Don't be a meat proxy https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ - 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 https://ai-health.syntax.fm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn1Fnfn0k 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
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