Just back from WeAreDevelopers in Berlin!
Just back from Berlin and still buzzing from WeAreDevelopers 2026 — the kind of week that reminds you Europe’s tech scene isn’t a sideshow, it’s the main act. Werner Vogels’ “Impossible made possible” keynote struck that rare balance of humility and ambition, weaving AWS’s long transformation into a simple idea: breakthroughs follow from patient architecture and unglamorous discipline. It was less fireworks, more load‑bearing honesty about primitives, culture, and stubborn customer focus. For leaders wrestling with AI promises and procurement realities, it felt like permission to be both brave and exacting at the same time. The F1 session on building an AI‑led system of work was the standout case study because it felt transferable beyond the paddock. You could see how telemetry becomes a nervous system, how human judgment and machine inference trade leads in real time, and how orchestration — not genius — wins the race. Hospitals, logistics networks, even municipal services will reco...