Smelter: JSON Schema to Elixir Code Generator
Stop hand-coding Ecto structs for external APIs. Smelter generates them from JSON Schema, including $ref resolution, composition, and batch processing.
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Leidenfold: Leiden Community Detection for Elixir
Leiden community detection for Elixir, powering Arcana's GraphRAG.
Arcana: Embeddable RAG for Elixir/Phoenix
Everything I've learned building RAG systems, packaged into one Elixir library. Hybrid search, agentic pipelines, GraphRAG, all running on your existing Ecto Repo and pgvector.
Stephen: ColBERT-Style Neural Retrieval for Elixir
ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval for Elixir. Per-token embeddings and MaxSim scoring for more precise search than single-vector approaches.
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.
Alike: Semantic Similarity Testing with the Wave Operator
Test LLM outputs by meaning, not by characters. A wave operator for semantic similarity assertions in Elixir, powered by local embeddings.
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.
The Boring URL Shortener: System Design Interviews on the BEAM
The classic system design interview opener: design a URL shortener. Each follow-up is supposed to be harder than the last. On the BEAM, they're boring.