From what you wrote I feel my fairly milquetoast opinion is now contrarian. I always thought being a generalist is actually harder than being a specialist. In m

From what you wrote I feel my fairly milquetoast opinion is now contrarian. I always thought being a generalist is actually harder than being a specialist. In many specialties there's the luxury of being able to encapsulate lower order knowledge that would be table stakes to a generalist and they're still perceived as competent so long as their specialty remains relevant and informed. For a generalist to appear competent they must not only dabble in all things frontend, backend, systems, and data stores but also know how all of these things can possibly connect or overlap. It always seemed odd to me that someone specializes in a language like Java or Javascript. That, to me, is neither a specialist or a generalist; I'm not actually sure what to call it.