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A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends)
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 hr 29 min · 86.4 MB
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Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more.
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- José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:38Sponsor: Depot
- 2:49Travel & Friends
- 9:11Claude 4.5 dropped
- 12:18Tricking your AI
- 14:53Actual vs perceived value
- 19:21Intro to Tidewave
- 21:42José's agent flow
- 25:02Adam's agent flow
- 27:30Sponsor: Fabi.ai
- 29:41Agents for prototypes
- 31:39YOLO mode notifier
- 33:30Competing with Phoenix.new
- 36:14For local devs
- 38:09Not just in the browser
- 42:11The Tidewave experience
- 47:36Sponsor: Miro
- 48:46Frontend agent limits
- 50:38The solutions architect
- 55:21Back 15 minutes
- 56:14Impressive testing strategy
- 59:22MCP hot take
- 1:03:44Tidewave models
- 1:06:24MCP's meteoric rise
- 1:10:50Tidewave business model
- 1:14:35Claude Code integration
- 1:16:30Adam's Amp use
- 1:18:15The benefits of ACP
- 1:28:13Bye, friends
- 1:28:27Closing thoughts