Elixir/BEAM Doesn't Solve Everything for AI Agents. Addressing the Criticisms.
Addressing the three most valid criticisms of using Elixir and the BEAM for AI agents.
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Your Agent Framework Is Just a Bad Clone of Elixir: Concurrency Lessons from Telecom to AI
Python and JavaScript/TypeScript AI frameworks are reinventing what telecom solved in 1986. What 40 years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents.
Taking Control: Building Flexible AI Workflows with Elixir's LangChain Step Mode
Building an AI assistant that knows when to ask for permission versus acting autonomously is trickier than it sounds.
AI Agentic Frameworks are building their own Erlang/Elixir
Looking at what some frameworks are doing, I feel they are replicating in Python what we already have in the