003 - Phoenix Adoption, Sobelow, and Whether AI Is Making Us Worse Developers
Show notes
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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