Is anyone using AI assistance in coding Elixir?

I’d been using codeium in vscode, and It was very helpful.
But writing a code and fixing errors myself is more fun to learn a programming language.

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What issues did you have? I am using it and I am quite happy. I do not have any auto complete, but I am using the in-editor shortcut on a regular basis. And the currently free claude integration (you have to sign up), works just fine.

My primary issue was, that I could not find any good tutorial on how it works. From what I found in the documentation, the in-editor feature uses the current context from the sidebar. There are shortcuts / commands to send the current file / code snippets to your context. But you can write it up your self.

The best introduction seems to be their blog post about it: Introducing Zed AI

Why I don’t like the Zed AI integration, or AI integration in general

Prompting with reasoning models includes the whole thinking process, which makes for clunky integratation. Other models I tried would wrap the code in {{code}} occationally and I couldn’t really find any models that generate usable code for the things I asked.

Why I don’t like Zed itself

In terms of why I don’t like the editor, the shortcuts are impractical compared to the ones of the text editor and still require you to use the mouse every now and then. Additionally, many shortcuts simply don’t work under linux, which is an absolute dealbreaker.
The configuration being a json file for a graphical text editor is a thing I already heavily disliked for VS code.

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