Q&A July 2023

Links from the stream: The B society: https://www.b-society.org/ Principal engineer's handbook: https://ilya.grigorik.com/the-principal-engineers-handbook/ Writing about your work: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ Stream calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=719b6cf08a9f11da4a732083a43aa00a61a7943ea864a57417b5da13b1fc8ccb@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Oslo 0:00:00 Introduction 0:01:32 How did you find your new job? 0:03:48 Pay gap between old and new job 0:09:00 Rust Foundation Trademark debacle 0:12:30 Isn't AI in the military a bad idea? 0:18:12 Where is Rust used in Helsing given they do AI? 0:22:45 Skin care routine 0:24:53 Notoriety and interviewing 0:33:13 Does the lack of sun in Norway bother you? 0:34:48 Is a PhD worth it? 0:39:10 How does your partner like Norway? 0:43:06 Best way to practice Rust? 0:45:00 Rust on GPUs 0:46:32 Where in Norway are you working from? 0:51:36 Moving to an IDE? 0:54:08 How do you know the company isn't evil? 1:01:34 How are the cats? 1:06:12 Interviewing and moving at the same time 1:07:40 What is your daily routine? 1:14:45 The Rust build system at Amazon 1:18:46 Do you exercise? 1:20:06 AI replacing engineers 1:29:16 Helsing and remote work 1:32:29 Favorite purchase last 6 months 1:34:12 Did requiring remote reduce your job opportunities 1:35:29 Will you be an IC for the rest of your career? 1:37:16 Leaving Amazon 1:39:45 Cat! 1:40:37 Rust for data engineering tools? 1:43:01 Do you mentor? 1:43:59 How do you organize your todos? 1:47:35 What about Norway disappoints you? 1:54:03 Might you start a company? 1:55:30 RustConf situation 1:58:46 A community Discord? Patreon? 2:05:52 Do we want more compiler backends? 2:08:22 Moving to Wayland 2:11:13 More Crust of Rust 2:12:23 What's your setup now? 2:13:48 Getting a job without formal education 2:15:25 The omnomnom voice 2:15:45 Programming languages at Helsing 2:16:49 What are principal engineers? 2:20:30 How do we make Rust default choice for ML kernels? 2:21:38 Video on ghost_cell and qcell? 2:22:50 Pitfalls for junior engineers 2:28:46 Rust in robotics and space stuff 2:30:04 Will rustc share code with rust-analyzer? 2:31:23 Imposter syndrome 2:32:27 How'd you meet girls during your PhD? 2:35:13 Wayland compositor 2:35:55 Why do you not work on Noria? 2:37:31 Emacs? 2:38:16 Struggling to find a junior tech job 2:42:03 Innovation in Norway 2:44:26 BSDs and NixOS 2:46:19 Working in security 2:47:31 Front-end development in Rust 2:49:16 Tech in a decade 2:51:38 Backend framework choice 2:52:10 Best language for cryptography 2:53:24 Return to lock-free simulation series? 2:53:50 Why did you leave the US? 2:55:13 Question speed-run 2:58:21 Opinion of Amazon 3:01:22 Working on a visa 3:03:10 More question speed-run 3:13:12 What brought you to Rust? 3:15:30 What can dynamic dispatch do that enum dispatch can't? 3:18:41 Outro Live version with chat: https://youtube.com/live/cYEqrLMNJss