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I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked

OVERBRING Labs • Isaak Tsalicoglou • Dipl. Masch.-Ing. ETH Zürich × IMD MBA • B2B GM • Industrial Equipment & SaaS • Product and Technocommercial Excellence • Business Pragmatist • Multi-book author

Given that the last Mac I bought is a 2012 MacBook Air 13" that has been running Debian 12 for a while now (with a recent kernel everything works, including the Wi-Fi chipset), and given that I have no Windows installation to try it out on, I decided to look into GitHub Actions. I’ve used it almost every day since then to summarize and reformulate text, to discuss and review ideas, to learn about software architecture, to understand better how to write Elixir-idiomatic code, to figure out how to profile SQL queries with SQLite, and much more. I won’t pretend that this was some kind of a major feat of programming, but at least now there is an Elixir package that can give you spot-checks on disk usage of a path without having to run os_mon to get possibly-stale data from the disksup service.

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