Building ambitious software — Jonathan Kelley, Dioxus Labs & Cognition

Jonathan Kelley, founder of Dioxus Labs, shares insights from building a cross-platform Rust app framework for five years. He details Dioxus's evolution, its core technologies like Blitz and Subsecond, and the transformative impact of AI coding agents. Kelley explains how AI excels at handling Rust's complexity, automating mundane tasks, and serving as patient specialists for knowledge-intensive problems, yet falls short in writing effective tests. He concludes that while AI makes code cheap, quality remains paramount, shifting the engineer's focus to architecture and strategic system design.