003 - Phoenix Adoption, Sobelow, and Whether AI Is Making Us Worse Developers

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
    https://www.praialabs.com/phoenix-version-adoption
    https://www.praialabs.com/bandit-adoption

  - Sobelow 0.15
    https://github.com/sobelow/sobelow/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

  - New Elixir book: Elixir for Finance — Dr. Dimitrios Koutmos, Alex Koutmos, Hugo Baraúna
    https://www.financialelixir.dev/#table-of-contents

  - LLamex — a Credo plugin to clean up Ash-related LLM-isms
    https://github.com/dmitriid/llamex
    https://github.com/Jump-App/credo_checks
    https://github.com/elixir-vibe/ex_slop

  - Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

  - Tip: Impeccable for design work with LLMs
    https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable

  - Dokploy v0.30.0 released, with nice-to-haves
    https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/releases/tag/v0.30.0

  BLOG — 12:03

  - Andrea Leopardi — GenStage Demand Visualized
    https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/genstage-demand-visualized

  - Arjun Gillard — The Elixir Hiring Paradox: notes from ElixirConf EU 2026
    https://agtalent.co.uk/the-elixir-hiring-paradox-notes-from-elixirconf-eu-2026

  - Tidewave — A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor
    https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-connect

  - Mike Zornek — An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir Dependencies
    https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/elixir-dependency-update-skill

  - João Paulo Abreu — Learning Elixir: Alias, Import, Require, and Use
    https://dev.to/abreujp/learning-elixir-alias-import-require-and-use-2hk2

  - DeClaude — How AI text watermarking works
    https://declaude.org/watermarking/

  - 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)
    https://luma.com/erlef
    https://elixirconf.com

  - Goatmire / AshConf / Hackathon (Workshops Sep 28–29 – Conf Sep 30 – Oct 2 – AshConf & Hackathon Oct 3)
    https://www.goatmire.com/
    https://luma.com/wz4z0iz6
    https://luma.com/qm8gs6j4

  - UnConference EU (Oct 20) + CodeBEAM EU (Workshops Oct 20 – Conf Oct 21–22)
    https://luma.com/erlef
    https://codebeameurope.com/

  JOKE — 32:37

  DISCUSSION — 33:11

  - 33:11 — How will the work of a senior engineer look two years from now?
    I'm done using AI
    https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/
    Don't be a meat proxy
    https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

  - 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
    https://ai-health.syntax.fm/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn1Fnfn0k

    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