we just released small-and-mighty distilled PII reduction models, check them out github.com/distil-labs/... you can run them locally (1B!) and they work as well as much bigger generic models; SLMs FTW!

I'll give a demo at the Berlin Elixir Meetup tonight! www.meetup.com/elixir-berli... (last minute change) Come say hi if Elixir and/or AI is your jam. I'll show how to use distillation (featuring distil labs ofc) to make exmeralda.chat run on a smaller model. #myelixirstatus

Over the last couple of weeks we've been working on adding tool calling support to our distillation pipelines. Now you can use it! As a fun demo, we trained a model to help you remember git commands and it's only 3B so you can run it locally! www.distillabs.ai/blog/gitara-...

If you're skeptical of Big AI and want to learn more about Small AI, check out the blog post our CTO, Jacek, just published. Goes through how we can help you turn your big, expensive, small models into beautiful, small, efficient ones www.distillabs.ai/blog/small-e...

In September, we are hosting Elixir Berlin as part of the #globalelixirmeetups. Join us and other Elixir developers around the globe to celebrate this week! 📅 Hope to see you there! 💜 #ElixirLang www.meetup.com/elixir-berli...

Phoenix.new by @fly.io is an interesting new entrant into the prompt-driven app development space - it can spin up a full Elixir/Phoenix real-time web app in a neat browser-based IDE, testing via a headless browser while it writes the code simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/23/...

Oban is probably the greatest library I have ever used, especially with Oban.Pro on top. The value you get for free - or for a very reasonable amount - is mind-blowing.

Claude just looooooves monkey-patching all over Python tests even though the rules tell it not to do that.

Has there even been a better/worse timing of two papers published the same day? May 26th 10am: x.com/xuandongzhao... "Learning to Reason without External Rewards: LLMs can learn complex reasoning without access to ground-truth answers, simply by optimizing their own internal sense of confidence."

Truly an excellent name. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a better project name.

In case you doubted "all devs will become managers", I'm currently asking Claude via the CLI to plan and implement a bunch of changes and then Gemini via Windsurf to do code review of the changes. My first thought was "ROBOT FIGHT", but actually they're cordial and take each other's feedback well.

Woah, looks like GPT 4.1 is the first model that doesn't pepper the code with gratuitous comments every 3 lines.

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

Still love Elixir, but also getting back into some Python feels like putting my old, comfy slippers back on :)

@aaronfrancis.com somebody made a billboard for you

Ohhhhh you guys are all at @alchemyconf.com. I'M SO JEALOUS.

Still using Windsurf as my main editor, but I find myself gravitating towards the Claude CLI tool more and more, especially for more complex changes. I'm not sure exactly why that is, but somehow it feels more reliable/trustworthy?

Hard-won lesson! And a hard pill to swallow, because I don’t know if being systematic about/focused on this helps much or of it’s largely luck. You’ll only know for sure after years of work and guessing up front how things will turn out seems ~impossible?

What this all really points towards, to me, is how fast code review is going to become a bottleneck. But it's not just code review, it's also implementation plan review and poking around at various constraints in a system. Claude can't produce more working software without this stuff evolving too

oh shit claude code is so good

This is currently my favourite AI-based coding workflow. @windsurfai.bsky.social makes it pretty easy to just do the core of a thing (in this case, fix a bug) and let AI handle all the other ceremony around that (in this case, writing a test).

Thanks for writing arathunku.com/b/2024/notes... @arathunku.com ! Came in handy today 👍

This is delightful. Now I want a pet rat to tickle.

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

The fact that Deep Research justifiably takes a long time makes for interesting UX. I didn’t expect to be so happy delegating work and then chilling, knowing that my report is being written. It feels nice to know something useful is happening!

📯 Oban Web is open Source 🐬 Oban v2.19 includes MySQL support 🧭 Web v2.11 is released 📊 Met v1.0 is released (and open source) oban.pro/articles/oss... #elixirlang

Hell yeah, can’t wait to try this out!

Spend 30 minutes with @maciej.gryka.net and learn why creating your own data labelling pipeline is a critical part of using AI in your business and why Elixir is a great tool for it. 🌐 Check out the talk from #ElixirConfEU 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgNd... #ElixirConf #ElixirLang #AI

I feel an internal urge to have so NY resolutions, pretty much for the first time. Is this middle age?

Well, shit. Let's hope 2025 is not too similar to 2020 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

I'm looking for a new organizer to take over for Boston Elixir. I want to make sure that person has the time and interest to grow the Boston Elixir community. #ElixirLang

Rare opportunity right now to hire a Jonty

Giving Devin a try, not sure how I feel about taking all the responsibility for, but none of the fun of coding.

Oh shiiiiit I can’t wait to dive into this, I guess I need to start making my walkthrough vids again!

Tried Windsurf today, I like it! How I used it so far isn't a huge step up from Cursor in raw capability, but it makes a surprisingly large difference. The multi-step workflows really help (though slower). I'm impressed how quickly I got more productive with it.

How accurately can you predict an American's most recent presidential vote based on whether they call it "a tweet" vs. "an X post"?

So who’s going to implement Postgres inside SQLite so we can build the Sqloboros?

Oh this is so good it’s hard to read www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/ (in the “hard truths that make you look in the mirror” kind of way)

bluesky would be even better if everyone stopped talking about how cool bluesky is, just like this post, and instead posted an opinion about the weird thing in the world that they appreciate

Having a process with no blocking code reviews has had surprising consequences for me. I know it'd feel faster, but I didn't anticipate shipping so many small PRs per day, rather than working on larger chunks. Whenever I have change that can conceivably go, I ship it. I didn't realize how much...

Huberman says I need more adrenaline. I don't have an ice bath, so instead run `UPDATE` in production.

I love a smell of a Heisenbug in the morning ☕️