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Elixir blogger halts exploratory writing series citing AI-driven decline of programmer discourse

The author is ending a three-and-a-half-year-old blog series that documented hands-on experiments with Elixir and the Erlang VM, including a telescope-simulation project that led to conferences and friendships. They cite the rise of LLM-generated code and writing as the reason, saying open-source discussion has collapsed and some community members now let AI tools like Claude post under their name and photo.

lucassifoni.info · 2026-09-02

Developer builds structure-aware fuzzer to hunt bugs in the Gleam compiler

A developer frustrated by inconsistent Erlang and JavaScript outputs from the Gleam compiler first tried using an LLM to generate edge-case test programs, spending about $20 in tokens to surface just one confirmed bug (issue #5613), which was promptly fixed. Dissatisfied with the cost and randomness of that approach, they pivoted to building a structure-aware fuzzer that generates syntactically valid Gleam programs automatically to systematically probe the compiler for hidden defects.

kurz.net · 2026-08-25