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Discussion on: Discuss: As a developer would you rather be a specialist or a generalist?

 
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Jakub Stibůrek

But you can know multiple things at the same time on the same level. Ofc noone is able to master everything.

What is a generalist in your opinion? E.g. one might think that being a FE dev means that you are a specialist. But there are also people who do only CSS and HTML, compared to them the FE dev is a generalist. I think that one should strive to know the most about a variety of topics and then decide the scope they are comfortable with - we can call that a stack. Meaning that everyone should be as much of a generalist that they can but focus on some subset of the skills.

I agree with @tqbit above. T person that is able to shift the vertical bar from time to time has the upper hand on the market.