September 09, 2025

269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives

29 minutes

News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fascinating research showing Elixir performing exceptionally well in LLM code generation benchmarks (scoring highest among all tested languages), the announcement that next ElixirConf US will be in Chicago, and a critical security alert about a new type of developer dependency attack that weaponizes AI CLI tools, and more!

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https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert – Expert, the new official Elixir LSP was released

https://expert-lsp.org/ – Expert LSP official website

https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/installation.md#editor-specific-setup – Installation instructions for different editors

https://zed.dev/docs/languages/elixir#expert – Zed editor already supports Expert

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960402157922082981 – José Valim announces Tidewave Web first update

https://tidewave.ai/blog/editor-integration-notifications – Tidewave Web blog post and full changelog

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960692138112352355 – José mentions plans to open public roadmap soon

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962491846795391333 – José Valim interviewed about Tidewave Web with Ruby focus

https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-introducing-tidewave-interview-with-jos-valim#interview-with-jose-valim – Full Ruby AI interview with José Valim

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960683093225865463 – José discusses Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs – Zed working on Claude Code support

https://github.com/orgs/tidewave-ai/projects/1 – Tidewave's public roadmap

https://github.com/polvalente/handoff – Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution

https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1961071773438574897 – LiveDebugger v0.4.0 release announcement

https://forms.gle/V6tUHpJt94vi1v1TA – LiveDebugger feedback form

https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger GitHub repository

https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962649394139877479 – José Valim shares Elixir's exceptional LLM performance results

https://x.com/tomthesilva/status/1962628935730241712 – Thomas Silva's research on language performance in code generation

https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark – Tencent's AutoCodeBenchmark multilingual coding evaluation

https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/main/figures/exp_acb.png – Benchmark results showing Elixir's top performance

https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1961914102764261688 – Next ElixirConf US announced for Chicago

Errata correction from José about OIDC implementation attribution to Jonatan Männchen

https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1960771720727683507 – New developer dependency attack vector using AI CLI tools

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware – Supply chain security alert about compromised Nx package

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/ – Semgrep security analysis of the NPM project's Nx compromise

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome – Anthropic's post about securing browser interactions

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