Jon Gjengset (@jonhoo) is a long-time Rust programmer and educator and the author of Rust for Rustaceans, a book on idiomatic Rust programming for experienced developers.
You can find Jon and his work at https://thesquareplanet.com/
Timeline
0:00 Intro
1:00 Vibe coding in Rust: safer or more dangerous?
4:00 Jon's first agentic coding livestream
6:55 Where LLMs save time or waste it
11:00 LLMs with strong test oracles
14:30 Developing intuition for AI-assisted coding
17:10 Idiomatic Rust and mental models
23:00 How Rust herds programmers toward good architecture
26:00 Common newcomer habits to unlearn in Rust
33:00 Traits, type classes, and the borrow checker's real limits
35:00 Unsafe Rust
43:00 Polonius and the next-gen borrow checker
47:00 What Rust deliberately left out of stdlib
53:00 Origins of Rust for Rustaceans
1:02:00 Writing a dense, timeless programming book
1:07:00 Teaching Rust in 10 hours
1:14:00 Is Rust a good first language?
1:17:00 Comments as the most important code you write
1:27:00 Getting unstuck
1:32:40 Parting thoughts