January 2026 Q&A

Also available as a video on YouTube (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.