Jon Gjengset on Rust Internals, Vibe Coding, and Teaching by Streaming

Jon Gjengset 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/

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0:00 Intro
1:00 Vibe coding in Rust: safer or more dangerous?
3:54 Jon's two-week LLM immersion experiment
6:55 When LLMs save time vs. waste it
10:10 Avro IDL transpiler: a perfect LLM task
14:30 Building a Touch Portal plugin with LLM help
16:10 Developing an intuition for LLM delegation
17:18 Unlearning OOP habits in Rust
22:20 Rust's opinionated design and error…