OpenAI published a repo built primarily with Elixir (96.1%).
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Really cool!
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My friend found this repo: GitHub - openai/symphony: Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents. · GitHub which I thought was quite interesting and worth sharing here. The project describes itself like this:
Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.
They even have a little bit in the readme about “Why elixir?”
Elixir is built on Erlang/BEAM/OTP, which is great for supervising long-running processes. It has an active ecosystem of tools and libraries. It also supports hot code reloading without stopping actively running subagents, which is very useful during development.
I think that might be exactly what the first post in this thread mentions 
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I think the two threads got merged.
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Oh I’m sry, I didn’t see it.
Nothing to be sorry for! And thanks for bringing this. This is super fun to see large companies trying out Elixir. Hope this’ll make more folks try Elixir and fall in love with it.
I’ve also posted this same thing on X, and the post got quite a bit of traction there: https://x.com/dimamikielewicz/status/2029327139196289358.
I think some folks that liked it are from an entirely different world. I wonder if we should link some Elixir-related overviews for them to get even more familiar with the language..?
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2 posts were split to a new topic: OpenAI just chose Elixir to orchestrate AI agents. So I ran their code through mine
First, I joined this forum because of openai/symphony. It was interesting to see how quickly others noticed the new OpenAI repository. 
As more developers realize that OpenAI is using Symphony, there will likely be questions about how to use Elixir effectively.
One emerging trend in programming ecosystems is the creation of LLM “skills” for specific languages, especially for those new to the programming language, E.g. Lean4 skills.
While looking through elixir-lang/elixir, I did not find any skills of this type. Are there any official skills for Elixir?
I did find the forum topic: Elixir Skills for Claude, Cursor, Codex
For forum tags, could Symphony be added?
Since many developers may not yet know about this Elixir forum, it might be helpful to post a short notice on the GitHub OpenAI Symphony discussions tab pointing people here.
Finally, thank you for providing the free book Elixir Succinctly®. It has been quite useful as an introductory resource. Yes, I am still someone who reads books.
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