Your AI Agent is Writing Rust… But Is It Good? Explore On This Upcoming Livestream.
AI coding agents are making it easier for people to start writing Rust, but is the code they’re writing good? What does good look like? And how can you make sure what they’re generating is on par with hand coded Rust?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
Join us for the second episode of JetBrains and the Rust Foundation’s AI Livestream series: Smarter Coding Agents for Rust with Symposium on October 1, 2026 at 16:00 UTC. Hosted by Orhun Parmaksız, Rust Developer Advocate at JetBrains and lead maintainer of Ratatui,
This episode features Symposium project maintainers and Rust Foundation Project Directors Jack Huey and Niko Matsakis. Join us as we work to increase agentic coding’s proficiency in Rust.
Want to know why Symposium is being developed? Let me hand this post over to Jack…
The Problem
Frontier AI models can write practically any code you may imagine, provided that they have the right training or context. Often they don’t. New language features and library releases happen after model training; companies rely on internal libraries the model has never seen; teams and individuals have conventions they want followed. All of these hinder AI agents from writing correct, pragmatic, and idiomatic code.
In theory, this is often not hard to solve: documentation exists for new language or library features, models can read API documentation if they know where to look, and agentic tools such as Skills, Hooks, or MCP servers provide users with ways to customize their experience. It is, however, difficult today to ensure that agents see these tools when they should.
The Solution
Symposium is an open-source system that solves this. When your code uses a library, the tools and guidance its authors wrote load automatically: adding a dependency doesn’t just give your agent new APIs, it gives it the knowledge to use them well. Teams, companies, and individuals can define and share their own tools and knowledge the same way. Symposium is decentralized and ecosystem-first: it is designed to interop with existing plugin systems and package registries, rather than simply defining a new standard, which allows Symposium to be used for any language and for any ecosystem.
Join Us For the Conversation!
Is your interest piqued? Join JetBrains and the Rust Foundation on October 1 to learn more about the need for a project like Symposium, the current pitfalls in agentic coding that it is looking to solve, and join Orhun Parmaksız in conversation with Jack and Niko, two Rust project maintainers who have teamed up to make coding in Rust more accessible.
