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.