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v44.0.1 - It's a time for builders

Hotfix

If you know who José Valim is, then you know he probably made a mistake by joining me for our third installment of 🔥Hotfix🔥. The inventor of the Elixir programming language is at it again with his colleagues at Dashbit and they've got a new product called Tidewave. It's a coding agent with a twist: it has such a deep level of integration with your web framework that it can get the executable feedback it needs to tackle the entire feature development lifecycle.

I do eventually let him plug the tool (and our conversation genuinely makes me want to try it—I logged a todo and everything!), but to be on Hotfix you gotta bring a thorny problem to the table, and he picked a great one: marketing hype aside, nobody has a clue what the future of AI agents looks like.

Like always, we totally 100% and A+ solved the problem by correctly predicting the future. You gotta listen to find out.

Every time I talk to José, I get ideas for what I should be doing instead of what I'm actually doing. If you feel so inspired, write into podcast@searls.co and I'll read it on the next mainline version release of Breaking Change.

You can follow José on Bsky, X, and Mastodon. Pick your poison. ☠️

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      <description><![CDATA[<p>If you know who José Valim is, then you know he probably made a mistake by joining me for our third installment of 🔥<a href="/posts/whats-the-hot-fix/">Hotfix</a>🔥. The inventor of the <a href="https://elixir-lang.org">Elixir programming language</a> is at it again with his colleagues at <a href="https://dashbit.co">Dashbit</a> and they've got a new product called <a href="https://tidewave.ai">Tidewave</a>. It's a coding agent with a twist: it has such a deep level of integration with your web framework that it can get the executable feedback it needs to tackle the entire feature development lifecycle.</p>
<p>I do eventually let him plug the tool (and our conversation genuinely makes me want to try it—I logged a todo and everything!), but to be on Hotfix you gotta bring a thorny problem to the table, and he picked a great one: <strong>marketing hype aside, nobody has a clue what the future of AI agents looks like</strong>.</p>
<p>Like always, we totally 100% and A+ solved the problem by correctly predicting the future. You gotta listen to find out.</p>
<p>Every time I talk to José, I get ideas for what I should be doing instead of what I'm actually doing. If you feel so inspired, write into <a href="mailto:podcast@searls.co">podcast@searls.co</a> and I'll read it on the next mainline version release of Breaking Change.</p>
<p>You can follow José on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social">Bsky</a>, <a href="https://x.com/josevalim">X</a>, and <a href="https://genserver.social/josevalim">Mastodon</a>. Pick your poison. ☠️</p>]]></description>
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