Rust in Peace

A talk by Nick for Rust NYC

Rust in Peace is a eulogy to my programming career. Over the past year, teaching coding at Apple, I realized nearly all my students were vibe coding and had stopped needing me. That was the signal to go back to practicing law.

Our firm runs its entire practice on the Neon Law Navigator, Rust-built software that flexes its great ecosystem. We built our practice to enable all lawyers to vibe-code custom client experiences and tell our clients' unique stories. In this presentation, you'll see how this all fits together beginning with how we architected the data, chose Rust-first vendors, and leverage agentic tooling for coding and lawyering.

Navigator is only possible because the ecosystem is this good, because the LLMs are this good, and because communities like RustNYC are this good. Please come to my retirement party and let us get crabby together.