<p>TNews includes Mark announcing his new Sagents library for building AI agents with human-in-the-loop oversight and real-time debugging capabilities, José Valim's blog post on why Elixir is the best language for AI based on recent completion rate studies, LiveDebugger v0.6.0 with custom events and enhanced exception handling, an analysis of Elixir developer salaries showing US senior remote positions at ~$163k median, Peter Ullrich's new MCP server implementation for Elixir, a revamp of Lua for Elixir with improved tooling, Elixir Hub's new events section for finding conferences and meetups, and a discussion on whether AI advancements like Opus 4.6 are eliminating the SDK advantage of more popular languages, and more!e</p>
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<p><strong>Elixir Community News</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/sagents-ai?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/sagents-ai</a> – Github organization home to the Sagents projects</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents</a> – Mark announces Sagents - "Sage Agents" library combining wisdom with LLM-based agents, featuring HITL, SubAgents, GenServer architecture, Phoenix.Presence integration, middleware system, and more</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents_live_debugger?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents_live_debugger</a> – Phoenix LiveView dashboard for debugging and monitoring Sagents agents in real-time with visibility into agent execution, message history, tool calls, and events</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sagents-ai/agents_demo?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/sagents-ai/agents_demo</a> – Demonstration Phoenix LiveView application showcasing Sagents's multi-conversation agent architecture with isolated AI agents and real-time updates</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/josevalim/status/2019422467446698493?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://x.com/josevalim/status/2019422467446698493</a> – José Valim announces his new blog post on why Elixir is the best language for AI</li>
<li><a href="https://dashbit.co/blog/why-elixir-best-language-for-ai?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://dashbit.co/blog/why-elixir-best-language-for-ai</a> – José Valim's blog post explaining why Elixir is best for AI, focusing on immutability, documentation, stability, and tooling for coding agents</li>
<li><a href="https://tidewave.ai/blog/the-future-of-coding-agents-is-vertical-integration?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://tidewave.ai/blog/the-future-of-coding-agents-is-vertical-integration</a> – Study showing Elixir had the highest completion rate across models among 20 different languages</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qwqg1p/livedebugger_v060_custom_events_enhanced/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qwqg1p/livedebugger_v060_custom_events_enhanced/</a> – Reddit discussion about LiveDebugger v0.6.0 release</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger</a> – LiveDebugger v0.6.0 with custom events, enhanced exceptions, and temporary assigns support</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2KP0JdRmdo?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2KP0JdRmdo</a> – Video demonstrating new LiveDebugger v0.6.0 features</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2020895787136201050?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2020895787136201050</a> – Software Mansion announces LiveDebugger v0.6.0 on social media</li>
<li><a href="https://hexhire.io/elixir-developer-salaries?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://hexhire.io/elixir-developer-salaries</a> – Analysis of Elixir job market and salary rates showing US senior remote median at ~$163k, with limited junior positions and wide variation in European rates</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qxeuoe/elixir_salary_data_from_216_remote_job_listings/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qxeuoe/elixir_salary_data_from_216_remote_job_listings/</a> – Reddit discussion of Elixir salary data from 216 remote job listings</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/PJUllrich/emcp?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://github.com/PJUllrich/emcp</a> – Peter Ullrich releases emcp, a minimal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Elixir built with Opus 4.6</li>
<li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3mebgikthgk2u?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3mebgikthgk2u</a> – Peter Ullrich announces emcp on Bluesky</li>
<li><a href="https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp</a> – David's Elixir MCP project built to handle session difficulties</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/davydog187/status/2019778141040832567?s=20?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://x.com/davydog187/status/2019778141040832567?s=20</a> – Dave Lucia announces Lua for Elixir revamp with top-notch error messages, quote/unquote fragments, and formatters</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/curiosum_dev/status/2021187697646199214?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://x.com/curiosum_dev/status/2021187697646199214</a> – Curiosum announces new events section on Elixir Hub website</li>
<li><a href="https://elixir-hub.com/events?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://elixir-hub.com/events</a> – Elixir Hub events section for finding conferences, meetups, and workshops with free event listing</li>
<li>Discussion on whether AI advancements like Opus 4.6 change the game for Elixir adoption, potentially eliminating the advantage of languages with official SDKs</li>
<li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler</a> – Anthropic post on building with AI capabilities</li>
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