Alex Martsinovich

AI Future Will Be Nothing Like Present | Alex Martsinovich You and I have no idea what it's like to work with AI

Maybe AI has made writing code an obsolete skill, but every engineer who plays with coding agents today gained their experience by writing code. To understand the real impact of AI, we'll have to look at a world where engineers _never_ had to write code.

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nah, it uses InstructorLite

What I love the most about this library is that it's only a joke until you actually have a use case for it 😅

Handwave is my most cursed library so far and is built on top of InstructorLite. Enjoy!

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And who didn't want Oban job to just do the right thing for a small price of $0.003?

How about a general purpose term() -> 🪄magic✨ -> string() function? You creativity is the limit!

Handwave 👋

New Hex package that allows you to point in the general direction of desired outcome and let LLM figure it out.

Sometimes, you just need a smarter if:

#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

hopefully not yet, but it def feels harder to learn and I don't think my pre-2024 knowledge will carry me for long enough. I don't feel like I'm winning much tbh.

why am i feeling miserable then 😓

👀

Ah yes it will silence everything that doesn't fail a test. How come logs bleed into test output in the first place? Lots of stuff happening in the background?

Global `capture_log: true` should work more or less like that. Can you try it and report back?

Not gonna spend my test budget on this one!

I've seen people getting genuinely excited about AI agent generating dozens of markdown files with "plans", "design documents", "security checklists" and other garbage. With my own eyes. I have no idea how to explain this.

Patch release 1.1.1 for InstructorLite

* Make ChatCompletionsCompatible adapter more forgiving to Mistral's API responses
* Fix rare bug when InstructorLite.ask/2 would refuse to call adapter because it wasn't loaded

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we spend all out time code reviewing ai slop unfortunately 😓

Love seeing this in code review 🫠🫠

PostHog Elixir SDK is Good | Alex Martsinovich PostHog Elixir SDK 2.0 is here and it's good

I vibe coded an entirely new PostHog SDK—

Actually, no. This summer I locked in, learned what needed to be learned, and built an error tracking library from first principles, that became an official PostHog SDK for Elixir

Here's why I think it's good
#ElixirLang

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Tbh users usually don't have problems with clicking around. The more important part imo is how to get ssh key and why is it even ok to copy private key somewhere. AI generated docs just add noise and make people more likely to scroll through important parts

This is the best source I have

404!

yeah, I'm not a fan. There is a fine line between being bold and creating a gimmick

5-minute guide to Elixir caller tracking | Alex Martsinovich Now is the second best time to talk about caller tracking

caller tracking has been part of Elixir for quite some time now, but is still a relatively obscure mechanism. we need to fix this.

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5-minute guide to Elixir caller tracking | Alex Martsinovich Now is the second best time to talk about caller tracking

caller tracking has been part of Elixir for quite some time now, but is still a relatively obscure mechanism. we need to fix this.

#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

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If you're a junior engineer, don't ask cheap models for advice. Ask the most senior engineer on the team. The latency is garbage, the personality is questionable, but your employer pays for subscription 💅

Last week InstructorLite hit 100 stars and 10k downloads on Hex 🎉 Almost a year after its initial release!

InstructorLite is the best way to get comfortable with structured outputs before you inevitably transition to raw Req.

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> SoBelow

oh.my.god

If food can only be soup, salad or sandwich, then functions can only be pure functions, side-effects or call sites

You mean this one? Admittedly I'm not great at UI so it's not very obvious to me.

I guess it makes sense, a very small price to pay for not making users explicitly configure Req for their test environment