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As someone who likes to dip their toes into everything, I feel a bit called out by "master of nothing".
My apologies. My intention wasn't a dig at engineers themselves, but rather the trend of employers seeking "full stack" engineers, and the implications of them shopping for a singular engineer willing to do the job of multiple engineers-- IE be taken advantage of, and the first to be let go, because of a lack of specialized domain knowledge, etc.
No worries. Wasn't really offended. ;)
Fuck that employer behavior, though.
The truth is that there is value in both a generalist and a specialist.
It just means he can't do it by himself.
Yours won't be perfect, but you can do the whole thing by yourself.
Why would I want to do it by myself, in a professional team setting?