259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new

Thinking Elixir Podcast

News includes the public launch of Phoenix.new - Chris McCord's revolutionary AI-powered Phoenix development service with full browser IDE and remote runtime capabilities, Ecto v3.13 release featuring the new transact/1 function and built-in JSON support, Nx v0.10 with improved documentation and NumPy comparisons, Phoenix 1.8 getting official security documentation covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, Zach Daniel's new "evals" package for testing AI language model performance, and ElixirConf US speaker announcements with keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord. Saša Jurić shares his comprehensive thoughts on Elixir project organization and structure, Sentry's Elixir SDK v11.x adding OpenTelemetry-based tracing support, and more! Then we dive deep with Chris McCord himself for an exclusive interview about his newly launched phoenix.new service, exploring how AI-powered code generation is bringing Phoenix applications to people from outside the community. We dig into the technology behind the remote runtime and what it means for the future of rapid prototyping in Elixir.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/259

Elixir Community News

• https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.
• https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's phoenix.new project is open to the public
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936068482065666083 – Phoenix.new was opened to the public - a service for building Phoenix apps with AI runtime, full browser IDE, and remote development capabilities
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto – Ecto v3.13 was released with new features including transact/1, schema redaction, and built-in JSON support
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/v3.13.2/CHANGELOG.md#v3132-2025-06-24 – Ecto v3.13 changelog with detailed list of new features and improvements
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Nx v0.10 was released with documentation improvements and floating-point precision enhancements
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/blob/main/nx/CHANGELOG.md – Nx v0.10 changelog including new advanced guides and NumPy comparison cheatsheets
• https://paraxial.io/blog/phoenix-security-docs – Phoenix 1.8 gets official security documentation covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6295 – Pull request adding comprehensive security guide to Phoenix documentation
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lscszxpakc2o – Zach Daniel announces new "evals" package for testing and comparing AI language models
• https://github.com/ash-project/evals – Evals project for evaluating AI model performance on coding tasks with structured testing
• https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3lsbt7anbda2o – ElixirConf US speakers beginning to be announced including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord
• https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes – ElixirConf website showing keynote speakers and initial speaker lineup
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1937149387299316144 – Saša Jurić shares collection of writings on Elixir project organization and structure recommendations
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-core-and-the-interface-c267f0da43 – Saša Jurić's article on organizing Elixir projects with core and interface separation
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-boundaries-ba013c731c0a – Article on using boundaries in Elixir applications for better structure
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-anatomy-of-a-core-module-b7372009ca6d – Deep dive into structuring core modules in Elixir applications
• https://github.com/sasa1977/mix_phx_alt – Demo project showing alternative Phoenix project structure with core/interface organization
• https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1100 – Sentry updates Elixir SDK to v11.x with tracing support using OpenTelemetry

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Discussion Resources

• https://phoenix.new/ – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix. Describe your app, and watch it take shape. Prototype quickly, experiment freely, and share instantly.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936074795843551667 – You can vibe code on your phone
• https://x.com/sukinoverse/status/1936163792720949601 – Another success example - Stripe integrations
• https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/ – OpenAI Codex, Open AI's AI system that translates natural language to code
• https://devin.ai/ – Devin is an AI coding agent and software engineer that helps developers build better software faster. Parallel cloud agents for serious engineering teams.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk – Chris McCord's ElixirConf EU Keynote talk titled "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"

Guest Information

• https://x.com/chris_mccord – on X/Twitter
• https://github.com/chrismccord – on Github
• http://chrismccord.com/ – Blog

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