"Rust gives all the headaches up front" got stuck in my mind! Nice interview. I hope Rust is used in more places

Very grammatical

That was a very informative newsletter.

Using AI for evaluation sounds premature. But I wonder if AI-enabled tools can help teachers customize their teaching material better.

Yes it is!

I cross-compile for Linux from my Mac using zigbuild

In a parallel universe someone would probably hire you even without an interview

To me it sounds like the interviewers didn’t want to proceed. Usually people make up their mind in the first few seconds and act accordingly. It is a shame though that the tech industry uses the same kind of interview for all experience levels.

And then I remembered your ‘pre-cambrian explosion’ talk. Connecting some dots might create an automatic memory issue fixer

I thought so. Last night I tried feeding an ASAN trace to Claude and it was 50% useful x.com/debamitro/st...

Many small steps were purely vibe coded, in my personal projects. In many cases I did make manual modifications though - mostly because I wanted something slightly different than what I had said. It is quite rare to get broken code from AI