Mike Hostetler, creator of Jido and ReqLLM, is back for round three. Jido 2.0 hit the top of Hacker News and took his docs server down with it, and Jido v3 betas are already on Hex. We get into agentic back pressure, why models write better declarative Elixir, why most actors don't need an LLM at all, durable workflows with Jido Flow, and the multiplayer harness he's building on OTP.

Plus Grok Bots and personal agents, reverse engineering bad IoT apps, and live questions from chat.

00:00 - Introduction

02:56 - The Jido 2.0 launch and a Hacker News hug of death

06:27 - Lessons from Ralph Wiggum loops

08:51 - Why models write better Elixir

11:44 - Agentic back pressure

14:22 - Jido v3's Spark DSL

20:48 - When do you need 10,000 agents?

26:28 - Q&A: A public actor mesh?

27:59 - Actors vs agents: Jido without an LLM

30:38 - Halo 2 NPCs and classical AI

33:36 - What's new in Jido v3

35:03 - Durable workflows with Runic and Jido Flow

39:34 - Property and fuzz testing with agents

42:27 - Who's building on Jido

44:27 - Q&A: TermUI and the Jido harness

48:28 - DASP, the Durable Actor Session Protocol

50:39 - Q&A: Pods, topologies, and the signal bus

55:01 - Grok Bots, Dots, and personal agents

57:20 - Reverse engineering IoT apps with an LLM

1:06:24 - LLMDB and LLM Catalog

1:07:51 - 600 PRs a month and vibe coded PRs

1:12:12 - The Founder Playbook skills repo

1:14:37 - Teaching and community after LLMs

1:17:31 - Will AI replace engineers?

1:22:57 - A hard lesson migrating Killswitch data

1:25:01 - What's next for Jido and the harness

Resources Mentioned:

- Jido: https://jido.run/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Runic: https://github.com/zblanco/runic?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- LLM Catalog: https://llmcatalog.dev/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Founder Playbook: https://github.com/getagentseal/founder-playbook?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Killswitch: https://killswitch.app/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Connect with Mike:

- X: https://x.com/mikehostetler?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehostetler?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Sponsors:

- BEAMOps: https://beamops.co.uk/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discord?utm_source=elixir-mentor

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Michael Lubas, CEO of Paraxial.io and the first guest ever on this podcast, is back to check in on the state of security. We get into Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday, why AI keeps lowering the bar for attackers, the OpenAI sandbox escape story, and whether the AI labs are overstating the risk.

Michael shares why cheap foundational checks still beat a frontier model, why small companies should skip bug bounties, and why Elixir gets no credit for its security. Plus live questions from chat.

00:00 - Introduction

02:34 - ElixirConf US and the Hex pentest talk

06:20 - Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday

13:50 - Engineers who stopped reading their code

14:54 - LLMs as offensive security engineers

17:40 - Sandbox escapes and the OpenAI incident

23:00 - Are the AI labs overstating the risk?

26:09 - The open weights debate

29:32 - Developer anxiety and the Rails World keynote

35:00 - Why it's getting worse for defenders

38:30 - Run grep before a frontier model

41:11 - Why Elixir has an edge right now

45:21 - Patch windows in the AI era

47:11 - Can a startup stop a nation state?

50:06 - Securing your Elixir app with AI

57:17 - Letting AI patch production live

1:01:38 - Learning security as a developer

1:03:42 - Why small companies should skip bug bounties

1:04:54 - Insecure MCPs and AI assistants

1:10:14 - Verifying beneficiaries in Killswitch

1:12:36 - Q&A: Simulating catastrophic events

1:13:25 - Q&A: Learning ethical hacking with AI

1:16:22 - Kids, social media, and regulation

1:23:17 - Q&A: Are garbage collected languages safer?

1:27:26 - Where to find Michael

Resources Mentioned:

- Securing Hex: https://paraxial.io/blog/hex-pentest?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- PortSwigger Web Security Academy: https://portswigger.net/web-security?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- The Web Application Hacker's Handbook (2nd ed.)

- Killswitch: https://killswitch.app/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Connect with Michael:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellubas?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Paraxial.io on X: https://x.com/paraxialio?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Sponsors:

- BEAMOps: https://beamops.co.uk/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discord?utm_source=elixir-mentor

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- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

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Adam Gusky, solo founder of Blawgy, on how businesses get recommended by ChatGPT and other AI tools, and what technical founders get wrong about marketing. Adam went from a college wrestling meme page and 30 side projects to quitting his job, selling Blawgy as a hand-built service, watching it churn, and rebuilding it into a product agencies now run for their clients.

We get into SEO vs AEO, whether a post every day still works, and why most people will buy software instead of vibe coding it. I share how customers are finding Killswitch through AI answers, the Grok Bot team behind its marketing, and the partner program I'm building with attorneys and financial advisors.

00:00 - Introduction

02:19 - A college meme page and 30 side projects

04:05 - What Blawgy does

04:51 - Is SEO dead? SEO vs AEO and GEO

07:18 - How long before it works

10:34 - FoodBuddy and the menu item calorie play

12:21 - Agent readiness and llms.txt

15:23 - Customers finding Killswitch through AI

18:35 - Quitting the job to build Blawgy

22:12 - From hand-built service to real product

24:26 - Guardrails and multi-pass quality checks

26:17 - The Blawgy pixel and refreshing old posts

33:30 - Why people buy software instead of vibe coding it

38:37 - Handoff plans for solo founders

45:23 - Blawgy's stack, AI coding tools, and Tmux

54:06 - Marketing Killswitch with Grok Bots

56:31 - CAPTCHAs, bots, and AI slop on social

58:48 - A partner program for attorneys and advisors

1:01:09 - Local cold outreach that gets replies

1:03:02 - Why Blawgy sells to agencies

1:09:50 - Tiered pricing and finding agencies with Apollo

1:13:23 - SEO agencies, backlinks, and a cold email experiment

1:16:34 - Is a post every day overkill?

1:19:08 - Building an AI podcast producer

1:27:42 - Where to find Adam

Resources Mentioned:

- Blawgy: https://blawgy.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- MyFoodBuddy: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myfoodbuddy/id6505124191?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Is It Agent Ready: https://isitagentready.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Killswitch: https://killswitch.app/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Connect with Adam:

- X/Twitter: https://x.com/adamc0dez?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Blawgy on X: https://x.com/blawgyseo?utm_source=elixir-mentor

Sponsors:

- BEAMOps: https://beamops.co.uk/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discord?utm_source=elixir-mentor

SUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR

- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor

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