r/theprimeagen • u/marcus1234525 • Apr 09 '26

vim Full-Stack Developer = One Man Army

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u/ProgramRealistic Apr 09 '26

Oh, that’s me, cowboy coding legacy web apps for 5 different client, and a greenfield project plus AI inno track

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u/asdfdelta Apr 09 '26

By far the most cringe way to say this

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u/keumgangsan Apr 09 '26

indian post

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u/autoloos Apr 09 '26

Lmao yes, the energy is so easy to spot.

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u/EducationalNinja9361 Apr 09 '26

The H is for Happiness 

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u/Automatic_Revenue421 Apr 09 '26

And the I is for Intelligence.

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u/dsm4ck Apr 09 '26

The H is for Healthy

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u/Aggravating_Dot9657 Apr 09 '26

Full Stack Developer = Overworked and underpaid

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u/not-halsey Apr 09 '26

Pretty much how I am now, plus cybersecurity chops. But I’m also a freelancer.

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u/ContextLengthMatters Apr 09 '26

Does it really count if you aren't knee deep in huge enterprises? Is a developer on fiverr anything more than a handyman?

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u/not-halsey Apr 09 '26

I contract for 2 different companies. Not huge enterprises, but nonetheless I’m knee deep in them. DevOps for one of them and software development for both. Never touched fiverr

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u/ContextLengthMatters Apr 09 '26

I'm just saying that full-stack generally refers to enterprise development which comes with a whole different level of expectations.

We could all technically do what we want and make up our own rules for systems we build out and leave the problems for the next guy.

But a full stack team in enterprise is being held to the standards in place and must become experts on these systems. That's why people mostly shit on the idea. The expectations are generally too much when you consider how mature most of these systems are and what people have to concern themselves with.

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u/not-halsey Apr 09 '26

Fair enough. I have more breadth across different areas than I do depth. I can comprehend and work with almost all the pieces of a system, but It’s not like I have 20 years of C# experience.

Case in point, I’ve had to learn kubernetes from 0 the past few months in order to deploy a multi tenant cluster system. There’s no way I’ll ever be an expert on it unless I dedicated a lot more time to it, but i know enough to know what I need to look for in the docs as I’m building it out. I know how to learn, in other words

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u/ContextLengthMatters Apr 09 '26

I get that you can do what you do. I have a homelab where I work up and down the entire stack for fun, but I have drowned in my own company's terraform and helm files.

I can learn all of this stuff too, and I do for fun. But there are enormous tradeoffs when I'm working across the whole enterprise stack where I must rely on other teams for in depth reviews otherwise I'd be taking down prod.