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We can solve this - but just calling everyone who writes programs "developers" - and everyone that works to design things "designers." (hopefully you're just a "designer" who can program their designs.)

One person's full-stack is a tumblr theme, an HTML page, a WordPress theme, or a fully fledged web-app with end to end testing built with Elixir/Phoenix and Ember. If it's not in context, it cant be relative. Most huge apps have a big team of people in real life.

If jobs postings just said what their goals were - you could decide if you have the right skill set to make those happen.

The key is to enjoy your work and to constantly be working to improve your understanding and skills. If you're a Django developer and all the layouts break on every screen - and the bootstrap is broken - and you don't know why... you're not good at that stuff yet. It doesn't matter what you call yourself. A solid foundation is the best!!! But - when it comes to serious web-security, you can bet we'll hire 3 experts - and not a generalist.