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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wrote a new post about some opinions I've grown so far after immersing myself in agentic engineering. Does anyone disagree? arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/spovs-f...

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Spiky Points of View from 2,000 hours of agentic engineering

A few opinions on where software engineering is heading

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Following old school acquaintances on social media, it's remarkable how many have left the UK. And more keep leaving. And we're not in our 20s anymore, these aren't backpacking trips. Grown-ups with careers are expatriating for the long-term. The brain-drain will destroy us.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

my significantly less cool or easy-to-pronounce real name. (It rhymes with “willow”, not “silo” or “kilo”.) May the next chapter begin. /fin

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Anyway, I’ve never tried particularly hard to conceal my real identity, and today I’m dropping the pretence entirely. My business will still be known as Arrowsmith Labs, but I’m officially retiring the name “George Arrowsmith” in favour of 3/

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I don’t remember how or why I landed on “Arrowsmith”, but it’s apparently a real name if you google it. And for the Americans who have asked: no, I didn’t name myself after a Bostonian rock band — I didn’t even realise you Yanks pronounce it the same way. Dream on. 2/

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: “George Arrowsmith” is dead. A couple of years ago when I started publishing Elixir content, I decided I wanted to keep my online persona separate from my real life, and thus began writing under a pseudonym. 1/

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

that mediocre devs don’t stand a chance. But the number of QA/tester jobs is going to go up. Or someone will figure out how to reliably test code as quickly (and cheaply) as an LLM can write it. That person's going to make a lot of money.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

you need the reassurance of human eyes on it. And human eyes don’t scale. In the short term I think that the total number of software engineering jobs is probably going to decline — a small number of ultra-cracked AI whisperers are going to crank out so much code 2/

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

QA is about to become a huge bottleneck in software development. AI lets us churn out HUGE amounts of code extremely fast, but you still need to make sure it works. AI can help with testing too, but if you _really_ want to be sure it works, 1/

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Elixir friends: tomorrow I will begin the below challenge, using AI to resurrect a large abandoned codebase. Any suggestions? I'd love to find an Elixir project if there's a good candidate. What does the community need?

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Congratulations! Nothing is more rewarding than fatherhood 🙂

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New testimonials for Learn Phoenix LiveView. Thanks Georgi and Dwight! Check it out yourself at LearnPhoenixLiveView.com

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Peter Solnica 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇪🇺 @solnic.dev · 22/06/2025

I don't think it's just contexts' fault. I think it's also too much boilerplate that's needed to achieve basic stuff and LiveView not being part of the framework + its design with views and components being two different things. It's still the best stack on the planet if you asked me 🙃 (1/2)

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This one kicked off a big discussion on r/elixir. Read the comments here: old.reddit.com/r/elixir/com...

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Did contexts kill Phoenix?

Posted in r/elixir by u/ThatArrowsmith • 85 points and 115 comments

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

New testimonial for Mastering Phoenix Forms. Thanks Jim! (Check it out for yoursellf at MasteringPhoenixForms.com, now fully updated for Phoenix 1.8.)

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I just pushed an update to *Mastering Phoenix Forms*. The content and code are now fully up-to-date for Phoenix 1.8. See for yourself at MasteringPhoenixForms.com! Here's some feedback from existing customers:

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New blog post: **Numbering nested inputs in Phoenix LiveView.** This should be a simple feature to add to your nested forms, but it's not obvious how to implement it, and there are complications if your nested inputs are sortable. arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/numberi...

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Elixir Radar @elixir-radar.com · 04/06/2025

Elixir Radar issue 473 is out! 📣 You can read it here: buff.ly/sToO24X This issue features content from @thatarrowsmith.bsky.social @josevalim.bsky.social , Marcin Ruszkiewicz, Caio Delgado and Dan Schultzer. Thank you! #ElixirLang

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Elixir Radar 473

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Here's some of the feedback I've received since launching the LiveView and OTP Crash Course five months ago. (Check it out yourself at liveviewcrashcourse.com. It's free! 😉)

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Steffen Deusch @steffend.me · 30/05/2025

As we're getting ready for the first release candidate of #Phoenix #LiveView 1.1, I want to write about some of the new features and improvements we've been working on. A thread! #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Fully agree with this HN comment. LLMs are the most amazing technology I've ever seen. Why all the hate and negativity?

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Been a while since I published new Phoenix content! My new blog post is about how to do some things with nested LiveView forms that go slightly beyond the standard add/remove/sort stuff describe in the docs: arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/phoenix...

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Nested forms in Phoenix LiveView: advanced tips and tricks

Learn advanced techniques for rendering nested forms with inputs_for in Phoenix LiveView

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yes, it should be "jeopardiSing!" Stupid 'Muricans.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I want an LLM for my email. “Write a short email to David telling him I’m looking forward to seeing him on Saturday, and ask him what the dress code is. Show it to me for approval before sending.” Much easier than writing it myself. Does this exist yet?

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Do this, but using an LLM so I can control AWS by talking to it. I’d pay big bucks

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New testimonial for Learn Phoenix LiveView. Thanks Ondra! Check it out yourself at LearnPhoenixLiveView.com

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Avoid live components as much as possible - they’re a ton of extra complexity. (The docs themselves say the same) See if you can do it as a function component first. Main reason to use an LC: the behaviour is a) stateful and b) duplicated across multiple LVs

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This article is out of date. The LiveView loading indicator is delayed by default in newer versions; it already does what the article suggests to do.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Claude sucks at writing Phoenix - it still uses all the old pre-1.7 syntax like `form_for`, `Routes` etc.. Working around this by writing detailed explanations of the new syntax in my cursorrules but it's a PITA... is there a better way? @elixirlang.bsky.social #MyElixirStatus

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Who are the most interesting people talking about coding with AI on Bluesky?

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themykolas.bsky.social @themykolas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It's a steal!!! Get it if you have the oportunity!

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

New testimonial for Learn Phoenix LiveView. Thanks Dan!

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just ~31 hours left to grab this course at the lower price!

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Claude Sonnet 3.7 is great, except that I'm now spending 10% of my time writing prompts or code, and 90% sitting around waiting for Cursor's agent mode to finish. Starting to think I could code while reading a book.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This Sunday I will be doubling the price of my course Mastering Phoenix Forms, from $49 to $99. Get it at the lower price while it's still available: masteringphoenixforms.com

masteringphoenixforms.com

Mastering Phoenix Forms

The definitive guide to building complex, powerful forms with Phoenix, LiveView, and Ecto

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Whoever coded this should be fired:

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Oops, it’s called the “Discover” tab over here, not “For You”. My point still stands.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Underrated Bsky feature: the “for you” tab tells me whether I already follow someone, without me having to click through their profile to check. I wish X did this.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Elixir beckons… Join the dark side, Ryan! You’re already halfway there

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Very relevant to AI coding. Yeah it’s a shame that your pre-AI skills aren’t as useful as they were. But if you can’t accept that and don’t embrace the AI wave, you’re going to get crushed.

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George Millo @georgemillo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm native, but ESL people tell me the hardest things about English are: 1. insane spelling (and mispronunciations that come from it.) 2. lots of irregularities to memorise (e.g. all the past tense verbs) 3. tons and tons of idioms/turns of phrase/words with multiple meanings Sound about right?

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