PJUllrich
Praia Labs has the numbers on Phoenix version and Bandit adoption, Sobelow 0.15 is out, and there’s a new book, Elixir for Finance. We also cover Tidewave Connect, a couple of Credo plugins for cleaning up AI-generated code, Andrea Leopardi’s visual explainer on GenStage demand, and we argue about whether AI is quietly making us worse at our jobs.
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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
- Sobelow 0.15
- New Elixir book: Elixir for Finance — Dr. Dimitrios Koutmos, Alex Koutmos, Hugo Baraúna
- LLamex — a Credo plugin to clean up Ash-related LLM-isms
- Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident
- Tip: Impeccable for design work with LLMs
- Dokploy v0.30.0 released, with nice-to-haves
BLOG — 12:03
- Andrea Leopardi — GenStage Demand Visualized
- Arjun Gillard — The Elixir Hiring Paradox: notes from ElixirConf EU
2026 - Tidewave — A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor
- Mike Zornek — An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir
Dependencies - João Paulo Abreu — Learning Elixir: Alias, Import, Require, and
Use - DeClaude — How AI text watermarking works
- 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)
- Goatmire / AshConf / Hackathon (Workshops Sep 28–29 – Conf Sep 30 – Oct 2 – AshConf & Hackathon Oct 3)
- UnConference EU (Oct 20) + CodeBEAM EU (Workshops Oct 20 – Conf Oct 21–22)
JOKE — 32:37
DISCUSSION — 33:11
- 33:11 — How will the work of a senior engineer look two years from now?
- 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
- Syntax FM developer survey
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- 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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donaldb291
That survey data at the end hit way too close to home. 60% feeling their coding skills are diminishing and 54% feeling less flow state really captures the psychological toll of AI-assisted dev work. Managing the balance between being productive and avoiding becoming a “meat proxy” for LLM output is definitely one of the biggest challenges senior devs face right now. Great episode!
PJUllrich
Thank you! I’m glad the discussion was interesting to you
sevenseacat
Still listening, but I can really empathise with those two LLM blog posts. I don’t like what tech and our daily work is becoming
Edit: and the survey responses don’t surprise me at all