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LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?


How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.

If LLMs turn out to be a fad and you’re reading this after they jump the shark, please accept this article as a historical artifact from a time when we entertained the idea that fancy autocomplete might eat the world. I’m not worried about how I’m going to stack up against the “ Giving into the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that code even exists ” folks, but I am aware that there are significant new tools & variables at play here. We can build harnesses that don't just check if code compiles, but whether it actually handles concurrent load properly, recovers from crashes gracefully, or manages memory efficiently.

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