Just got back from WeAreDevs.twitter in Berlin where I ran a 2-hour workshop on building smart contracts using arbitrum.twitter Stylus + gave a talk on decentralized AI and vector search.

Here's what I learned speaking to rooms full of traditional devs 🧵

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Everyone in the room was a working developer, building with enterprise-grade stacks.

They expect their SDLC to reflect the same standards:

✅ stability
✅ reliability
✅ battle-tested dev environments

That's what drew them to the workshop with Stylus.

This tells you something important:

Developers are curious.
They are open.

And they will show up for blockchain content, if it meets their expectations.

The Stylus workshop was oversubscribed, people were turned away at the door. Every seat filled.

And yet…

When I asked who had built anything in blockchain before, only one hand went up.