I doubt it (if we're talking about the same thing since I see no mention of SLIME nor distel in the article). SLIME was developed as a replacement for ilisp which got a little long in the tooth.
ilisp was developed for Emacs to get a similar experience as developing on Lisp machines and now we're so far back in the past that I do not think that way of working was inspired by Erlang.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything better than this for debugging and doing live code changes.