Elixir Mentor

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

Firefox went from ~20 valid bug reports a year to 400+ in a single month (April 2026). Elixir's CVE count is on the same curve.
Michael Lubas (Paraxial.io) on AI in attack and defense. Ep 83 out on all podcast apps: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=83

Hacking an iPhone used to need a nation-state budget. AI is changing that math.
Michael Lubas returns to talk offense, defense, and the AI inflection point that's rewriting cybersecurity.
Out now on every podcast platform: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=83

"My job was never writing code—it was creating solutions."
Vasilis Spilka on building agentic software solo with Ash + Claude Code, and the one thing you should never delegate: the design of the system.
https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=82

"SaaS isn't dying because you can vibe-code a product. It's dying because the needs themselves are changing."
New ep w/ Vasilis Spilka on LLMs, Ash & agentic software: https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=82

"My job was never writing the code. My job was building a solution." Luca Corti, CTO at Sibill, on what engineering is really about. New episode out now on every podcast platform 👇
https://elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=81

A credit card that feels like a debit card — and helps your kids graduate high school with an 800 credit score. Steve Domino of Crew joined the podcast to talk fintech on the BEAM. 🎧 elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=80

"Working software is the side effect of learning the problem"—Luca Corti on ep 81! Elixir at a fintech startup, Broadway for bank sync & why BEAM's real power is fault tolerance. Listen on your fave podcast platform: elixirmentor.com/podcast?ep=81