Efficiency Gap: Why Elixir Outruns AI Coding Agents

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Jose Valim about the future of Elixir and its advantages over AI coding agents.

We catch up with Jose Valim and talk about the future of #Elixir and how #Elixir #agent #ai #coding

People in this episode

Guest: Jose Valim

Topics covered

• Elixir
• AI
• coding agents
• technology
• future of programming

Keywords

• Elixir
• AI
• coding agents
• Jose Valim
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elixir, AI, coding

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