Also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_zp82fYrGw.
Questions and answers session from January, 2026.
Timestamps
[@0:00:00] Introduction
[@0:01:44] Marriage and kids plans
[@0:03:26] Have you tried Helix editor?
[@0:06:10] Interview questions for Rust developers
[@0:13:19] How did you and your girlfriend meet?
[@0:15:31] Claude Code usage at Helsing
[@0:22:29] Thoughts on Mojo
[@0:26:47] Learning Rust to get a 100k job
[@0:34:40] Writing a new version of your book
[@0:41:47] How do Rust developers get girls?
[@0:45:50] Application-wide error handling patterns
[@0:54:03] Getting a Rust job as a graduate
[@0:54:38] Recommended Rust streamers
[@0:57:42] Advice for early career
[@0:57:55] Interesting companies to work at
[@1:14:11] Will AI widen or narrow the expert-novice gap?
[@1:25:27] One billion row challenge: is Java really the winner?
[@1:28:16] Are you WASM yet?
[@1:28:36] Crust of Rust on self-borrowing and Ouroboros
[@1:30:41] NixOS and its effect on your workflow
[@1:35:02] Interview approach for assessing candidates with LLMs
[@1:39:49] Breaking changes worth making in Rust
[@1:47:47] Improving as an intermediate Rust developer
[@2:02:54] Testing critical software (flight systems)
[@2:09:33] Generalist vs specialist
[@2:13:05] Why care about high salary in Norway?
[@2:16:49] Prep for Impl Rust videos
[@2:18:58] Job security with the rise of AI
[@2:27:20] Rust 4 Linux
[@2:29:45] Quick-fire answers
In the quick-fire round, we covered measuring growth as engineer,
thoughts on Zig, Rust job market for juniors, the Rust community, how
2025 was, the next-gen trait solver, tech to learn in 2026, ML and Rust,
monorepos and CI, missing Rust features, Dioxus, reflection in Rust, Zig
leaving GitHub, and favorite CS books.
