October 10, 2025

A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends)

1 hour 29 minutes

Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more.

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Featuring:

José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Tidewave

Agent Client Protocol

Model Context Protocol

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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