Elixir Mentor

With a couple thousand users, you can build your app in anything and it'll run great. The hard part starts when you grow.

Brice Ayres asked if AI will ever handle real architecture. My take: scaling is the gap.

elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=89

Picture logging into your bank and landing in someone else's account. That's a data race, and Elixir doesn't have that problem.

Michael Lubas () on why the BEAM gets zero credit for it.

https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=91

You can build an AI blog writer in one prompt. The hard part: stopping it from making a claim that lands a dispensary in legal trouble.

Adam Gusky on why Blawgy checks posts up to three times.

Full episode here: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=90

I had a great chat with Francesco Ciulla, who told me his biggest talk was a stage of 5,000—and after that, the shyness was gone. On DevRel, distribution, and being yourself. Out now on your favorite podcast app: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=88

Raise 10 to a huge power and you can blow up an app's memory. That's a real CVE in Decimal. Peter Ullrich hunts vulnerabilities in Elixir's top Hex packages with Claude Code.
Listen on your favorite podcast app:
https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=85

I had a great chat with Jason Allum on getting real work out of coding agents. His trick: ask for a mermaid DAG of the steps — it can't draw it without doing the real thinking. Better plans, fewer dead ends.
🎧 https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=87

Had a great chat with Michael Lubas about the AI inflection point in security. The EEF's CNA issued 9 CVEs in all of 2025 — they're on track for 100+ in 2026. That stat alone should get your attention. Listen on your favorite podcast platform! https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=83

I had a great chat with Tjaco Oostdijk on why so many musicians become programmers. His answer: it's the same creator itch—you just want to make things you love. Out now on every podcast app: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=86

CVE reports in Elixir are exploding, more this quarter than all the others combined. Peter Ullrich is behind many of them, using Claude to hunt bugs in top Hex packages. Episode 85 is out now.
https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=85

No row locks. No table locks. In Bedrock, transactions either conflict or they don't—and if they do, your function just reruns. Jason Allum on distributed state for Elixir. Out now on every podcast app: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=84