Recently I noticed that when I save a source file from my editor while having an IEx session running, the latter automatically recompiles my project. I’m pretty sure this never happened before, even though an LLM states this behavior has been going on since Elixir 1.15. Previously I’d use either an explicit recompile call in IEx, or just ran an HTTP request against an app endpoint which also did trigger recompilation.

This behavior is pretty confusing, since I’m not really sure when and why it started (although it did just some days ago), and I haven’t found a way to disable it. I’m aware about the IEx’s auto_reload feature which is disabled in my setup and is about reloading, and not recompilation anyway.

I’d like my IEx state to be unaffected by whatever intermediary edits I happen to do in the code until I decide to apply those explicitly. Please let me know what I’m missing.