{"podcast":{"title":"Elixir Mentor","slug":"elixir-mentor-6781463","podcast_index_feed_id":6781463,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting/8hGVuAbG.rss","website_url":"https://elixirmentor.com/","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/imports/podcasts/30cdf92b-ca9a-4b86-b31a-f30b97b8acc8/39230986-1707088652724-bd6c08947d02e.jpg","author":"Jacob Luetzow","episode_count":89,"summary":"Welcome to the Elixir Mentor Podcast, your go-to source for All Things Elixir. This show digs into the heart of the Elixir community, featuring interviews with enthusiasts and pioneers who share their stories and innovative projects that define our ecosystem. Each episode explores groundbreaking libraries and boundary-pushing applications shaping Elixir's future. We discuss best practices, emerging trends, and the latest tools and techniques. Perfect for developers at any stage of their Elixir journey, providing insights and inspiration. Join me as we explore the world of Elixir together.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T08:21:31.584613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/elixir-mentor-6781463"},"episode":{"title":"Brice Ayres on Fractional Engineering","slug":"brice-ayres-on-fractional-engineering","published_at":"2026-09-18T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/elixir-mentor-6781463/brice-ayres-on-fractional-engineering","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/elixir-mentor-6781463","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/0c95150910f1102968fe02b3306f6d3558e74df8d51c933e4a686c4def5f636b/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI4ODg4YTZhZi00OGRkLTQ0YWMtYmEwYy0yOWMwNGE1N2VlYmYiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIzMGNkZjkyYi1jYTlhLTRiODYtYjMxYS1mMzBiOTdiOGFjYzgiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NWZkZmEzYmUxMzQ5MzEzZjBiN2NjN2YiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmFhZDgyNWFhY2Q0NTBkOGU5MzBiNWQyL2VsaXhpci1tZW50b3Itc2FkejctMjAyNi05LTE4X18xOC0zMS01NC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/0c95150910f1102968fe02b3306f6d3558e74df8d51c933e4a686c4def5f636b/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI4ODg4YTZhZi00OGRkLTQ0YWMtYmEwYy0yOWMwNGE1N2VlYmYiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIzMGNkZjkyYi1jYTlhLTRiODYtYjMxYS1mMzBiOTdiOGFjYzgiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NWZkZmEzYmUxMzQ5MzEzZjBiN2NjN2YiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmFhZDgyNWFhY2Q0NTBkOGU5MzBiNWQyL2VsaXhpci1tZW50b3Itc2FkejctMjAyNi05LTE4X18xOC0zMS01NC5tcDMifQ==.mp3","summary":"Brice Ayres, founder of Axio Intelligence, on fractional engineering and what changes when one senior engineer can run a team of AI agents. Brice went from the Army and a 3.7 million follower Facebook cause to finding Elixir at Topgolf, leading engineering orgs, and going out on his own. We get into managing agents like an engineering org, whether you still need to read every line, and why Ash keeps LLMs on the rails. I share how a team of Grok Bots handles marketing, support, and QA for Killswitch, and we close with Brice's playbook for cutting cloud costs. 00:00 - Introduction 02:51 - Web dev class, the Army, and a viral nonprofit 08:38 - Finding Elixir at Topgolf 13:00 - What is fractional engineering? 16:10 - Vibe coding and why engineers still matter 24:03 - Think like an engineering manager 26:32 - Reviewing AI code, Ash, and established patterns 29:55 - Offmic, a live AI podcast producer 35:18 - Running agents like an engineering org 40:51 - Read-only agents in prod and self-healing infra 42:05 - A Polymarket bot with agent consensus 47:06 - Marketing Killswitch with Grok Bots 52:06 - Lighthouse scores and agentic browsing 56:13 - Getting found by LLMs 59:27 - Order with Surf: agentic food ordering 1:02:48 - Agent QA and local testing with K3s and Floci 1:05:40 - Data labeling, synthetic data, and edge AI 1:08:55 - Nerves, Peridio, and Avocado OS 1:11:47 - Bot traffic, analytics, and self-hosting 1:16:00 - Hardware stories and real-world edge cases 1:26:24 - When engineers ship faster than you can plan 1:29:10 - Monoliths, Postgres scaling, and ETS 1:36:40 - Where to find Brice 1:37:44 - Cutting cloud costs: logging and AZ traffic Resources Mentioned: - Axio Intelligence: https://axiointelligence.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor - Grok Bot: https://x.ai/news/introd…","meta_description":"Brice Ayres, founder of Axio Intelligence, on fractional engineering and what changes when one senior engineer can run a team of AI agents. Brice went fro…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6263,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/elixir-mentor-6781463/episodes/brice-ayres-on-fractional-engineering/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/elixir-mentor-6781463/brice-ayres-on-fractional-engineering.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}