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johnwheeler on June 20, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

Why wouldn't LLMs work as well with Elixir as python or JS? LLMs don't parse an AST.

lawn on June 20, 2025 [–]

Because of the amount of Python and JS in the wild is much more than the amount of Elixir code, so the LLMs have much more data to base their answers on.

johnwheeler on June 21, 2025 | [–]

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