TL;DR

• ‘Syntax’ is a platform that resembles ChatGPT, but writes blockchain apps based on the prompts you give it (instead of beat poetry in the tone of Ben Franklin).

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You know that feeling you get when you find something new to obsess over?

The one that’s followed by the thought: “Uh-oh, I’m definitely going to lose some hours, days, months of my life to this…”

We first experienced it on September 3rd, 1998 (the day Pokemon Yellow was released in Australia).

And uh…we just had that feeling again.

Yesterday, Spectral Labs (a crypto development firm) released ‘Syntax’…

Which is an AI bot designed to help coders write/build blockchain apps more efficiently, AND — get this:

Make it easier for non-programmers to build blockchain apps.

Now, we haven’t been able to try it out just yet (we have a newsletter to write), so we can’t quite vouch for its capabilities…

But you better believe that our loved ones will be getting blankly ignored this weekend, while we stare longingly (and a little bow-eyed) at our computer screens.

Here’s why this is worth getting so excited over (even if you’re not going to use it)…

“I don’t have the time” and “I don’t have the money” — these are two common excuses everyone makes in their everyday lives (often, rightly so).

In the context of building a Web3 app, those excuses might go something like this:

• From developers: “I’m not going to invest all this time if there isn’t an obvious pay-off at the end.”

• From users: “I don’t have the time or money to learn how to turn my ideas into reality.”

Tools like Syntax have the potential to increase Web3’s total developer pool (creating a greater diversity of app offerings in the process) by lowering the knowledge and time requirements to take a project from start to finish.

It’s a beautiful evolution of technology, no? 🥲