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LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?

created: June 4, 2025, 11 p.m. | updated: June 6, 2025, 11:14 a.m.

Vibe coders & new programmers working with LLMs hit the same walls that drove Elixir to exist in the first place. Research & InvestigateHere is a concrete example of using LLMs “badly”. All of a sudden, I’m not in the world of “please stop using LLMs to answer your questions”, I’m in the world of “please stop using LLMs badly to answer your questions”. Instead of just helping LLMs use Elixir better, we can help train them to be better at Elixir in the first place. We would be going beyond just making LLMs write better Elixir - we'd be making them recommend Elixir when it's the right choice.

3 days, 9 hours ago: Hacker News