[mckravchyk]

> Just as I disagree about "full stack" developers. People that call themselves "full stack"are a backend developer that dabbles in frontend or a front end developer that can dabble on the backend. Almost never have a met a person who was equally good at both.

I would not be surprised if in 10 years from now, there will only be full stack web developers.

I am a desktop developer (yeah, Electron). There's really no front-end / back-end split in this domain. Electron is pretty much everything web front-end (in a "SPA, choose your own adventure" way rather than relying on a framework to do the heavy lifting) and all the business logic that is self-contained within the app and putting it all together with the APIs Electron exposes. I know that a local self-hosted back-end does not have the complexity of a distributed web-backend, but it's still much more than just front-end and there are areas of development that are probably more "wide" and definitely more complex than this anyway - like video game development or C++ / QT desktop development.

Now what happens to the front-end now? Full-stack frameworks like Next.js. They also simplify the front-end part to death, where you do not even get to think about state management anymore. Then you add generative AI...

Also consider this, is a front-end and back-end engineers with 10 years experience at a large co that much better at their respective domains than a full stack with 5 years of experience at a startup? I cannot say for the back-end, but I can say for the front-end - there's a ceiling and it does not take long to reach it (maybe 5 years). You stop getting much better once the ceiling is reached. So what makes someone good is both reaching the ceiling and continuing to do the work on a daily basis, rather than specialising in an area, in my option. A video game dev with 20 years of experience probably is much much better than one with 5y. But front-end? I don't think so.