Discussion on the Launch of Phoenix.new and Elixir Updates

The podcast features news regarding the public release of Phoenix.new, an AI-powered service created by Chris McCord for developing Phoenix applications with a full browser IDE and remote runtime. It covers the Ecto v3.13 release which includes the transact/1 function and enhanced JSON support, the improvements in Nx v0.10 documentation and its comparisons with NumPy, as well as Phoenix 1.8's inclusion of security documentation addressing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. The episode also discusses Zach Daniel's evals package for testing the performance of AI language models, along with insights from Saša Jurić on Elixir project organization. An in-depth interview with Chris McCord delves into how AI-powered code generation is making Phoenix applications more accessible to a broader audience. Additionally, there is information on Sentry’s Elixir SDK, which is now supporting OpenTelemetry-based tracing.