303: The Taming of the Slop

303: The Taming of the Slop

From Thinking Elixir Podcast by ThinkingElixir.com

May 12, 2026 · 31 min

About this episode

The episode discusses recent news in the Elixir community, including board election candidates and new tools for AI-assisted coding.

News includes the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation publishing its 2026 board election candidates with voting now open, a new GitHub organization called Elixir-Vibe launching with tools to detect and fix AI-generated Elixir “slop” — including ExSlop and the related semantic linter Credence, erlang_python 3.0.0 arriving with true parallelism by embedding CPython into the BEAM as a first-class citizen, ElixirConf EU 2026 videos beginning to drop including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/303 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://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2026-candidates – Candidates for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation 2026 board election have been published. Candidates include David Bernheisel, Jon Carstens, Francesco Cesarini (incumbent), Nathan Hessler, Amos King (incumbent), Greg Mefford, Duane Strikwerda, and Alistair Woodman (incumbent). Voting opens May 8th at 16:00 UTC and closes May 15th at 23:59 UTC…

Topics covered

  • Erlang Ecosystem
  • Elixir tools
  • AI in coding
  • ElixirConf EU 2026
  • board elections
  • software development

Keywords

  • Erlang
  • Elixir
  • AI-generated code
  • board election
  • ElixirConf
  • software tools
  • programming

Sponsors

Paraxial.io

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Elixir-Vibe, GitHub, ExSlop, Credence, erlang_python

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