292: Sage Advice for AI Agents

About this episode

Mark discusses the new Sagents library for AI agents and various updates in the Elixir community.

TNews includes Mark announcing his new Sagents library for building AI agents with human-in-the-loop oversight and real-time debugging capabilities, José Valim's blog post on why Elixir is the best language for AI based on recent completion rate studies, LiveDebugger v0.6.0 with custom events and enhanced exception handling, an analysis of Elixir developer salaries showing US senior remote positions at ~$163k median, Peter Ullrich's new MCP server implementation for Elixir, a revamp of Lua for Elixir with improved tooling, Elixir Hub's new events section for finding conferences and meetups, and a discussion on whether AI advancements like Opus 4.6 are eliminating the SDK advantage of more popular languages, and more!e Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/292 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer. https://github.com/sagents-ai – Github organization home to the Sagents projects https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents – Mark announces Sagents - "Sage Agents" library combining wisdom with…

People in this episode

Host: José Valim

Topics covered

• AI agents
• Elixir programming
• developer salaries
• real-time debugging
• AI advancements
• community events

Keywords

• AI agents
• Elixir
• Sagents
• LiveDebugger
• developer salaries
• real-time debugging
• community events
• Opus 4.6

Sponsors

Paraxial.io

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elixir Hub, GitHub, Phoenix, Lua

Products: Sagents, LiveDebugger v0.6.0, Opus 4.6

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