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Re:Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:34PM (#49009488)
Would be great for reviving LiveView Native. Perhaps Dockyard / Brian Carderella might be interested.
Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:51AM (#48792437)
Ecto in Elixir has a decent balance and is nice to use though Elixir doesn't have objects, but the abstraction layer is handy.
Re: on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:38AM (#47599098)
I believe this will inevitably happen due to this reason - economic.

And property testing is going to be an important way to validate.

Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:23AM (#47243844)
Property testing could've helped
Re:Python React to Elixir Phoenix Migration Breakdown on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:51AM (#47179939)
Looks like you refactored a resume driven development project.

Nevertheless, the results look quite good.

Re:Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:12PM (#44963815)
Does it include support for Ash framework?
Re:Latest Release of Torus – OLI's LMS Written in Elixir on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:43AM (#43620181)
Torus's latest release is now 0.30.0 - development is steady and there have been continuous releases.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experiencing "AI brain rot?" on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:59AM (#43506297)
Think what AI will do to junior programmers. Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43444058
The spirit of the original is intact.

However, usually the bad result is not affecting immediately and in the meantime the apprentice undergoes a lot of anti-learning before this becomes apparent. And the learning muscles have atrophied.

That is an important catalyst aggregating the problem. Juniors are reading less code, mostly generating and then AI code produced dissuades them from reading code even more and the skills take a bit even more.
If you could elaborate a bit with why do you feel that way, it would help me glean some insight after comparing with the experience at my workplace. We face double challenge because English is not our first language.
Is there some tool or way of guiding junior devs to make the best use of AI, perhaps monitoring their prompts? Or somehow to intervene and coax them into using better prompts according to their level and experience. Perhaps make AI respond differently to people with different profiles.
Am also concerned about mentoring and community ecosystems languishing and the social connection wilting.

Ask HN: How should junior programmers use and/or not use AI for programming?

I am observing at my company that junior programmers, who have been allowed to use AI for helping with their coding seem to be losing their coding skills and critical skills. However, the seniors have become slightly more productive.What has been your experience and do you have any suggestion on how to use AI and can we evolve some guidelines for juniors.Also, the mentoring and community...

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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @08:29AM (#42508685)
At our company, we celebrated Christmas today exchanging gifts despite not having a single Christian person in our staff.

One of the junior introverted female developer was coaxed into being the Santa for gift distribution. She really shines as Santa and thoroughly enjoyed it. What's more, she even coaxed others to dance while accepting the gift and everybody has a good time.

My most memorable so far.

Million+ concurrent users per server - Discord are certainly having fun.
Re:Phoenix Liveview – a longer and deeper tutorial on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:44PM (#31092583)
First three minutes are promotion you might like to skip because if you are viewing this, you should already be able to work with Phoenix.
Not just terminal but the full desktop experience.
Re:Post-Open Source on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:37PM (#24424976)
Perhaps limiting use by companies or individuals with income less than one million dollars directly or indirectly would help.
Re:Post-Open Source on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:21PM (#24424770)
Can't the use be limited to companies or individuals with income / revenue less than a certain amount, say USD one million, directly and / or indirectly.
Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Saturday June 08, 2019 @12:44AM (#20130693)
Somebody

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