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		johnwheeler 10 months ago \| 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 10 months ago [–]

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 10 months ago | [–]

Thanks

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