Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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638 points wut42 | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source

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nilirl ◴[20 Jun 25 16:00 UTC] No.44329011[source]▶

>>44328326 (OP) #

Beautiful demo! How do I build agents like this?

Does anyone know any great resources to learn how to design agents? Tool agnostic resources would be awesome.

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1. chrismccord ◴[20 Jun 25 16:35 UTC] No.44329453[source]▶

>>44329011 #

Thanks! Everything is overly complicated in this space. It's probably far easier than you think. The open secret is it's just a loop that POST [provider]/chat/completions.

Elixir is particularly well suited here. In Elixir this is a genserver doing http posts and reacting to the token stream. The LiveView chat gets messages from the genserver agent regardless of where it is on the planet, and the agent also communicates with the phoenix channel websocket talking to the IDE machines with regular messages, again anywhere they are on the planet.

I talk about this quite a bit in my ElixirConfEU talk and distill things down: https://youtu.be/ojL_VHc4gLk?si=MzQmz-vofWxWDrmo&t=1040

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2. nilirl ◴[20 Jun 25 17:28 UTC] No.44329928[source]▶

>>44329453 (TP) #

Wow, thank you for the link, it clarified how tool calling and "choice-making" works.

It's like helping LLMs use a computer; like building an interface for it.

Ok, this is enough to get me started.

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