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Show HN: Jido Assembly; Slack Clone in Pure Elixir with Integrated Agents

mikehostetler — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:56:17 +0000

Hi HN!

We put together a showcase on a group chat application in pure Elixir that includes the following:

* Hologram Framework

* Jido Agents

* Jido Messaging (bridging chat to Telegram/Discord)

The authoring experience is pure Elixir on both the front end and back end. This showcase demonstrates the potency of this stack.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170704

Points: 25

# Comments: 1

New comment by mikehostetler in "Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework"

mikehostetler — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:22:59 +0000

Wrote a guide just for you! ;-)

https://jido.run/docs/getting-started/new-to-elixir

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mikehostetler — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:41:47 +0000

Not sure if this will surprise you - but I 100% agree with this. I went through the journey that many others did - implementing the loop, then trying to make it useful, realizing the limitations, etc.

I came to similar conclusions - what does valuable agentic software look like? It's not OpenClaw (yet)

The game theory then, in my opinion, is to focus on the knowable frontier - implement tools we can trust - and continue working and sharing that work.

I am holding onto the optimistic case - valuable use cases beyond coding agents will emerge.

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mikehostetler — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:37:18 +0000

Thank you!!!

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mikehostetler — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:36:58 +0000

I don't have a good answer - I've seen a lot of agent deployments but the space is evolving quickly and it's difficult to meaningfully discuss patterns.

This will be solved - and I hope that Jido can be a meaningful participant in that wider conversation.

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:30:34 +0000

Lots of output validation support!

Actions can enforce an output schema: https://hexdocs.pm/jido_action/schemas-validation.html#outpu...

Agents can as well - but it can be implemented a few different ways.

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:28:46 +0000

My strongest opinion with Jido is that agents must be architecturally correct WITHOUT LLM's before they can be correct WITH LLM's

Jido core has zero LLM support for this reason.

There's nearing 40+ years of "Agent" research in CompSci, LLM's came along and we threw out all of it. I didn't like that so I spent time researching this history to do my best at considering it with Jido.

That said, I love LLM's - but they belong in the Jido AI package.

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:25:44 +0000

Yep - BEAM has great support for audio workloads - would love to chat

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:00:05 +0000

Join our Discord - link is in the site footer

There’s a growing community showcase and I have a list of private/commercial references as well depending on your goals

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:36:44 +0000

Amazing!

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:36:18 +0000

The original version where I laid down the overall patterns was all hand coded. This was mid 2024.

I used Claude to learn & refine the patterns, but it couldn’t write this level of OTP code at that time.

As models got better, I used them to find bugs and simplify - but the bones are roughly the same from that original design.

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:33:54 +0000

It’s great to see OpenAI embracing Elixir - symphony is a direct implementation of the types of things Jido can do!

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:32:41 +0000

Thanks!!!

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:31:01 +0000

The core of Jido will run on a Raspberry Pi - we've even had people look at running Agents inside the BEAM where the BEAM is deployed on bare metal (embedded)

The future is going to be wild

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:16:40 +0000

See my other comment, but Jido 1.0 used (Elixir) Langchain

As LLM API's evolved, I needed more and built ReqLLM which is now embedded deeply into Jido.

New comment by mikehostetler in "Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework"

mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:14:56 +0000

Awesome!!! Gave you a star ...

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:02:00 +0000

Seems so, to my eternal shame ...

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:01:48 +0000

Fantastic!!! Appreciate any feedback

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:01:32 +0000

Yay!!!

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mikehostetler — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:01:10 +0000

Thank you!

Agree on operational boundaries - it took a long time to land where we did with the 2.0 release

Too much to say about this in a comment, but take a look at the "Concepts: Executor" section - it digs into the model here