What do you mean exactly? If you need a notification engine, reaching for a pubsub implementation is very easy with phoenix’s popularity and quite battle tested. I’ve implemented notifications at scale a few times in the ecosystem. What problems are you encountering that you don’t feel you have a tool in the shed to work with in this case?
I wrote this with some help from Claude Opus 4, researching how well it could construct things in a cited-only manner. I wrote a good bit of it myself and had Claude edit and do the deep digging. I found the deep dive to be very HN in nature so I figured I would share here and see if anyone else enjoyed it.
The modern developments are intriguing and they previously tied deeper into emotional and property value levels with precedent, but have taken a more modern approach based around environmentalism efforts that parallel the original lumber and forestry intents from things like free planting being legal but the cutting of another person's timber being treble damaged to disincentivize. It's all quite interesting. And with America's predisposition to single family homes with large yards (versus more dense urban cores with multifamily much more common in the rest of the world) there is a large well of potential disputes to flow to influence the law with real dollar risks of civil liability as things go onwards.
I have been using LLMs to write Elixir full time at work for months now. AMA, if anyone is interested.
I sometimes have different thoughts of approach than Zach, but this post really resonates with me. I've been in Elixir full time for over 10 years and would love to see an evolution in its adoption fueled by this.
I'm curious what your setup looks like. Do you use an IDE like Cursor or Windsurf, an editor like Zed or more directly an agent like Claude Code?
Have you used tidewave.ai? The demo from Jose looks fun, but I've yet to play with it.
What use-cases have LLMs shined in for you? I've really enjoyed using it to reduce the learning curve, eg to use Svelte and LiveSvelte on a small side-project.
(I've been using Rails for 20 years, Erlang & Elixir for ~10, but spend more time on the product side nowadays.)
> Do you use an IDE like Cursor or Windsurf, an editor like Zed or more directly an agent like Claude Code?
At work, we use both Windsurf and Cursor.
At home, I also use Claude Code.
> Have you used tidewave.ai?
My coworkers have and are impressed, I can't speak to it.
> What use-cases have LLMs shined in for you?
Well, I managed to literally have it do all my work for 3 weeks. I didn't write a single line of code. That was pretty cool. I didn't even cherry-pick work best for the LLM. It was my normal flow.
I also use Claude code as an interactive tutor. I will have it implement something, break it into logical commits, then in each one break a few pieces and write tests for them and have me learn by fixing the broken tests.
I was bored last night learning about MCPs and made this. My wife thought it was pretty funny, so I decided to post it here. It was a pretty fun process, and I am not normally a typescript developer. I made this with Claude Code and am not a typescript developer, I sling Elixir/Erlang by day.
Nathan Fielder is a phenomenally odd fellow who pushes the boundaries of comedy quite a lot. He also has proven himself to be a skilled (albeit atypical) 'growth hacker' and worn many other weird hats along the way. I thought that HN might find this interesting as a compiled piece of work as a whole. Steve Klabnik wrote a nice blurb that started all of this on Blue Sky as I was giving someone else my interpretation, and I took it all the way as a single page with some help from Claude.
Fair point. Can you think of a better way to weave that into what I’m trying to illustrate as a mental model? I struggled with that. Happy to read a PR that tries to capture it better.
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