Purists are the new converts

The digital industry is an inexhaustible source of converts. Being an experimentalist and Adamist culture —among other values— it always catches someone off guard. Yesterday's purists are today's biggest converts.

In this sense, the AI hype is producing its harvest. At a very good pace.

People who not long ago denigrated languages or environments—PHP, WordPress, Visual Basic before—for being too popular, for promoting things without really understanding them, for generating "poor quality" code, today indulge in prompts, bragging about how much they do in a short time and that they don't even need to look at the code.

It took me less than an hour. It's a 100% functional front-end application. I didn't look at the source code even once.

AI Convert — 2025

Those of us who have been gamers have always lived well in this culture.

When you could deploy your own infrastructure to run servers at home or set up your own email client, you enjoyed half understanding, a lot putting together.

When you could build something by downloading a repo and following a few steps in a README, you celebrated.

When you could create a website for someone by copying a WordPress template and installing a few plugins, it seemed fantastic; when you could do it for many companies, even if it was just to run a blog farm, you congratulated yourself.

When you could call a library that did practically everything for you in the browser, you finished it off by making a few small tweaks, feeling like you were putting the icing on a beautiful cake.

The purists were always there reminding you that you were just a beginner, that you were just someone who put things together. They will also now play their part—purists of today, converts of tomorrow—pointing out the weakness of these creations, their lack of scalability, the poor training of the people who are building them...

Digital products have their own Saint Paul

Purists also do their work of evangelizing. Now that they join the party, even if they arrive late, they want to convince everyone else. Sometimes for business, and many other times because they are really discovering what world they work and live in. And often chasing results, because that purist-convert soul cannot be content with simply playing. Just for Fun.

Long live the converts! Despite themselves.