I can't be the only person who thinks "full stack" translates to "master of nothing." One of the best career moves I ever made was shrug off the pressure to go full stack, and dedicate myself to backend only.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 109 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Full stack means we do it because nobody else will.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to be a full stack dev for that to happen to you

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, but when it does happen, you'll probably turn into one.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When it happens? That happened to me a long time ago. I’m still a backend developer. I can create UIs and I can spin up and manage docker CI infrastructure but I sure as hell don’t want to. A properly run company team should have separate professionals for UX, front end, back end, sysadmin, etc. Just because I am capable of doing those things does not mean I should.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just because I am capable of doing those things does not mean I should.

This is the crux of why so many companies, especially smaller and medium sized ones, are a hot mess. capable of << good at, but of course it's cheaper to just get johnny to do everything.

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