--- title: Guarding Against AI Drift: My Automated Elixir Quality... description: A developer shares their comprehensive automated code-quality setup for an Elixir project used as an AI code generation testbed. The concern is 'AI drift' —... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/guarding-against-ai-drift-my-automated-elixir-quality-checks-mike-zornek-m3tmonxup twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Guarding Against AI Drift: My Automated Elixir Quality Checks • Mike Zornek | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares their comprehensive automated code-quality setup for an Elixir project used as an AI code generation testbed. The concern is 'AI drift' —... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/guarding-against-ai-drift-my-automated-elixir-quality-checks-mike-zornek-m3tmonxup og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m3tmOnxup.png og:image:alt: Guarding Against AI Drift: My Automated Elixir Quality Checks • Mike Zornek og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Guarding Against AI Drift: My Automated Elixir Quality Checks • Mike Zornek **[ElixirStatus](https://daily.dev/sources/elixirstatus)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares their comprehensive automated code-quality setup for an Elixir project used as an AI code generation testbed. The concern is 'AI drift' — where generated code gradually degrades quality by copying prior low-quality patterns. The solution is a layered set of automated checks including: compiler warnings-as-errors, formatter enforcement, unused dependency detection, compile-time coupling checks via xref, Credo linting with custom checks (Jump's test-quality checks, Oeditus concurrency checks, and two project-local checks targeting AI-generated patterns), Dialyzer for type analysis, Boundary for context enforcement, Sobelow and mix_audit for security, and documentation integrity checks. All code-facing checks are bundled into a single `mix precommit` alias. The post also covers workflow hygiene (actionlint, semantic PR titles, Dependabot with custom changelog analysis), AI-assisted code review layers, and an honest list of gaps not yet addressed (Rust guardrails, secret scanning, visual regression testing). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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