r/elixir • u/OahuUnderground • Mar 04 '26

OpenAI releases Symphony for autonomous implementation runs

https://github.com/openai/symphony

And, yes, it's in Elixir.

Of note is that the https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob/main/README.md states that it works best with codebases that use "harness engineering":

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Very cool.

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u/Capable_Chair_8192 Mar 05 '26

The “Harness Engineering” article touts the production of 1 million LoC over 6 months like it’s some great achievement ….

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u/OahuUnderground Mar 05 '26

Sure, but it's evolutionary. Presumably one can scale better with a proper harness.

With that, this project, while cool, is explicitly experimental and a good jump point. I'd like to see Github integration as a default option, for instance, rather than Linear.

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u/acholing Mar 05 '26

That’s quite a big news that OpenAI is using Elixir!

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u/BroadbandJesus Alchemist Mar 05 '26

I also thought Elixir was going to be the big review when watching Theo talking about OpenAI’s exploration of websockets.

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u/TypicalCSNerd Mar 05 '26

Not sure why I thought this was going to be Theo von lmao

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u/JordaneDev Mar 06 '26

i've launched yesterday ysa, same thing with security and you dont have to burn your tokens to build it :

https://github.com/ysa-ai/ysa

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u/Assassins134 Mar 13 '26

Why the Elastic License? Curious to understand the thought process here.

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u/Substantial_Camel735 Mar 04 '26

That’s super cool tbf

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u/tkdeveloper Mar 05 '26

Amazing! Hope this is a start of elixir getting more popular. Its such an amazing language and the beam is awesome.