kingdomcoder
Igniter is cool. Phoenix.new is cool. How can we help?
I recently started playing with Igniter and it’s a great code generator already as it is. With Chris’ keynote, I can also see our trend as a community towards the next generation of codegen tools. My hunch is that Igniter can stretch even further in that direction. Codegen can become an edge for the Elixir community.
I won’t push too much nuance into making a vibecoding case one way or another but this is my attempt to start a discussion:
- What’s your thought on Igniter, Phoenix.new and our present codegen possibilities?
- What directions do you imagine we take things in the future?
- What will you recommend as next contributions from the community?
I was simply going to contribute back my learnings to the igniter docs (my answer to 3) and watch the broader things unfold, but I decided to make this post to hopefully elicit better ideas
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zachdaniel
I think there is still very much a place for igniter in a world of LLMs 
I’ve tried to get an LLM to bootstrap a project from scratch with even a few of the Ash dependencies and it got nowhere close (unsurprisingly). this installer is powered by igniter https://ash-hq.org
Packaging up changes as deterministic codemods is still a very big deal and is a rich vein we’ve barely even tapped at this point.
rhcarvalho
To add to the possibilities, there’s also Tidewave (MCP server connected to our own Phoenix app) from José & team: https://tidewave.ai/
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