Who’s shit-talking? They are all rough jobs in one way or another, and have their strengths and weaknesses. Some Devs specialise because the product/company is big, others generalise because the product/company is tiny and they barely have enough money to pay you, let alone seperate frontend and backend Devs, so you have to moonlight as a food van cook to make ends meet and also you live in the food van and sleep on the floor and stay warm from the exhaust of the meat fridge, every waking moment is a living nightmare and you haven’t had a proper shower in weeks because the stalls in the gym are always packed with horny gay men who are terrible kissers and don’t understand that you just want to be held for a minute jfc
People who specialize in one will have more time to go deep into the specific technologies, frameworks, and new developments related to a specific part of the stack. Similar to general practicioners and specialists in the medical field.
‘T-shaped people’ is an annoying corpo-speak term but it’s kinda what you want to be honest. A specialist with broad enough general background and competency to be effective everywhere when necessary. Sometimes you’re working in a team, sometimes not.
I never get these jokes. If you can fix a bug or add a feature across all layers of the stack by yourself that’s a valuable skill.
You can assign that bug to a single dev and they do it all themselves without having to involve multiple teams.
I don’t get the shit talk.
Who’s shit-talking? They are all rough jobs in one way or another, and have their strengths and weaknesses. Some Devs specialise because the product/company is big, others generalise because the product/company is tiny and they barely have enough money to pay you, let alone seperate frontend and backend Devs, so you have to moonlight as a food van cook to make ends meet and also you live in the food van and sleep on the floor and stay warm from the exhaust of the meat fridge, every waking moment is a living nightmare and you haven’t had a proper shower in weeks because the stalls in the gym are always packed with horny gay men who are terrible kissers and don’t understand that you just want to be held for a minute jfc
People who specialize in one will have more time to go deep into the specific technologies, frameworks, and new developments related to a specific part of the stack. Similar to general practicioners and specialists in the medical field.
‘T-shaped people’ is an annoying corpo-speak term but it’s kinda what you want to be honest. A specialist with broad enough general background and competency to be effective everywhere when necessary. Sometimes you’re working in a team, sometimes not.