Career Fuel for Programmers
Stop Vibe Coding. Start Building Systems That Last.
Bruce Tate teaches Elixir the way it should be taught: mental models over syntax, architecture over features, oversight over autopilot. Through structured courses, live training, mentorship, and private team enablement for engineering organizations using AI.
Bruce Tate
+10 books • 2 Jolt Awards • "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks"
Choose the approach that fits where you are
How do you want to learn?
Self-Paced Courses
Build strong foundations at your own pace. Deep video courses on Elixir, OTP, LiveView, Ecto, Ash, and disciplined AI workflows.
Live Training
Recalibrate how you think about systems. Small-group public cohorts that focus on mental models that stick.
Mentorship
Work through real production problems. 1-on-1 guidance for course members and trained teams making real decisions.
For Engineering Teams
Private team training and ongoing advisory. Train your team to use AI without losing architectural control.
Core Topics
What you'll learn
From core foundations to production-ready systems.
Core Elixir & OTP
Processes, supervision, boundaries, and failure as first-class concepts.
Phoenix & LiveView
Real-time systems, structure, and patterns that scale with complexity.
Anti-Vibe-Coding
Structured oversight for AI-assisted development. The Ask → Plan → Agent framework. Integrate AI without losing the architecture decisions that make your codebase reliable.
Production Systems
Architecture, tradeoffs, deployments, and long-term maintenance.
Is your team building with AI?
The problem is not simply bad AI code. It is a training gap.
Most engineering organizations adopted AI coding tools faster than their review and training discipline could catch up. Senior reviewers drown in AI-shaped pull requests. Juniors ship more code than they fully understand. Architecture decisions get buried inside prompts and local fixes.
Groxio runs private team training for engineering organizations adopting AI on real Elixir codebases — Elixir, Phoenix, OTP, LiveView, Ecto, Ash, Postgres, and the discipline around AI-assisted delivery. Private intensive plus ongoing advisory, scoped through a diagnostic conversation.
About Bruce Tate
Mental models that stick
Bruce is the author of widely read books on Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView, and has helped thousands of developers understand why these systems behave the way they do. He currently writes the Stop Vibe Coding series and a sequence of LinkedIn essays on AI, engineering, and the future of the craft — including Sludge on the Wall, How Better Tools Can Make Things Worse, Trainable Things, and How Juniors Become Seniors.
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Why Groxio
When learning Elixir, it's natural to focus on what functions do.
We teach why systems work.
We start with boundaries, failure, supervision, and tradeoffs. Then show how Elixir makes those ideas concrete.
The same discipline applies to AI: structured oversight, clear boundaries, real outcomes. Not vibe coding. Not autopilot acceptance. The framework that keeps the decisions yours.
"I don't just want you to write Elixir. I want you to understand why it works the way it does. That understanding changes how you approach every problem."
— Bruce Tate
Stay sharp on Elixir and AI
Short notes on Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and disciplined AI workflows, plus updates on courses and conferences. Bruce's current series on engineering and AI gets sent to this list first.
Real feedback from developers who've taken our courses and training
What students say
" I was really happy to learn about starting dynamic processes that I name on the fly. "
" I've been able to continue building my career in Elixir with confidence. "
" I always have fun. I'm a beginner and have to type in front of everyone. I just come as myself. "
" It's about learning how to learn... allowing us to follow our own path. For me, it's life changing. "
" I learned important concepts to learn everything else in the Elixir Ecosystem. "
" The biggest insight I had was the CRC pattern... That underlying pattern shapes programming. "
Questions about team training or mentoring?
Reach out to Maggie for help with private team training, bulk course licenses, mentorship packages, or custom arrangements.
For engineering teams ready to start: schedule a diagnostic conversation instead. We'll look at your team's current Elixir experience, AI usage, review bottlenecks, and architecture concerns together.
