Code and Cognition

Turning a Fitness App Idea Into a Roadmap | Olio Apps Discovery Session At Olio Apps, we believe the success of every great product starts long before a single line of code is written. It begins with discovery, a structured process that helps founders uncover the real problem their product solves, identify user needs, and separate must-have features from nice-to-have ideas. In this video, we take...

Vibe coding offers a promising, novel way for software engineers of all skill levels to design, build, and launch their code. However talk to anyone who has tried it and you'll see that vibe coding is so close, yet so far from delivering a final product! On this episode of Code and Cognition Scott and Josh sit down with Monica Borrell (MB) and Mounica Veggalam(MV) to discuss the journey of develop...

Olio Apps can help you build your app:  ⁠⁠https://www.olioapps.com/contact-us⁠⁠ Hey! We're Scott and Aron. We are software engineers, and business operators running Olio Apps. We help our clients build the best software possible. We're always learning and improving our methods and practices, and we want to share that with you. -- Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:35) Welcome (0:52) Zach’s Background (2:...

Olio Apps can help you build your app:  ⁠⁠https://www.olioapps.com/contact-us⁠⁠ Hey! We're Scott and Aron. We are software engineers, and business operators running Olio Apps. We help our clients build the best software possible. We're always learning and improving our methods and practices, and we want to share that with you. (00:00) – Intro & Use Case: Accelerating Prototyping with Gen AIDis...

Show Notes In this episode, we cover: 00:00 – Agents vs. Workflows What’s new in LLM-powered agents, and how they differ from traditional, on-rails workflows. 01:30 – Pattern Libraries and Agent Frameworks Exploring tools like Amazon Bedrock and visualizing agentic workflows. 03:00 – LLM as Judge Using higher-cost models to validate output from cheaper models. A clever way to balance cost and qual...

In this episode, we reflect on what were the real-world challenges of building generative AI applications in 2024  and how to avoid them in 2025. Drawing insights from a recent MIT Technology Review report and our firsthand experience building Data Pilot , we unpack what’s holding enterprises back from moving GenAI apps into production—and how to fix it. From hallucinations and latency to the need...

In this episode, the team takes a deep dive into scaling AWS Lambda for high-performance applications without breaking the bank. Join us as Dustin, Engineering Manager at Olio Apps, walks through a real-world case study on optimizing Lambda concurrency for a growing SaaS product. Learn how the team moved from a monolithic VPC setup to isolated environments, why “manual scaling” became unsustainabl...