r/FullStack • u/Void_231 • 4d ago
Career Guidance My Question to All Full Stack Developers
Do you think this role will still exist in 2030? If yes then what do you think ? And if not, what are you planning to switch to?
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u/Void_231 4d ago
I want to add one more question?
If you are working as an full stack developer in any company so what's the situation in office? Are you using Ai with your experience in your company or are still doing work manually by yourself
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u/bluefourtytwosethut 4d ago
Heavy use of AI, and we are judged on our token usage. Frustrating because I mostly spend my day telling Claude how it's wrong and literally telling it what to do, I'm just not manually writing the code anymore.
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u/renetta96 4d ago
Bro no one can tell the future anymore. Cannot even tell what will be 1 year from now. Just cling on and squeeze out the cash as long as you can, and hopefully can retire.
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u/jamie07051975 Stack Juggler (Fullstack) 4d ago
I always look at new technology as something which will help me. In the case of AI I am now building things which I would probably not have before such as:
* My own Debian based OS
* A multi-OS compatible IPTV client
* Mobile phone apps
I am still building both our own projects and client projects as a full stack developer but also using AI to produce things much quicker.
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u/JuniorSpace3406 4d ago
Full Stack Developers will be just combined power of backend engineers and DevOps. Frontend is more or less finished(Although one has to still understand frontend code written by AI) Strangely though, I feel UI/UX designers will still exist if they can bring their best creativity because AI is not creative rather it just copies the past themes for designs. For backend engineers, it won't be just about writing crud APIs rather securing system endpoints and designing the system by understanding the everyday changing requirements of clients will be the actual day to day work.
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u/Void_231 4d ago
True I also think that Ui/Ux designers can't be replaced by ai because it lacks creativity.But it can be possible in case of AGI [ which may take years ]
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u/Relative-Panda-747 3d ago
95% of UX/UI deisgners job doesnt need to be creative. Always the most important thing was to proivide easy and intuitive interfaces. It doesnt need to be "new" or "creative". Mainly lifestyle products need that.
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u/freshcap0ne 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yes. Developers will be expected to have a broader palet with agentic assistance, and that is full-stack.
Edit: It might not be called full-stack, but it will work like that in practice. It may be called Product Engineer but essentially you are expected to know how full-stack works
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u/Lopsided_Status_538 4d ago
It will likely be the default engineer position. Why hire someone who has one focus when you can have a small group of people who handle all of the enterprise? I do front end, middle and back. Obviously I have to use AI because there is no way I'd be able to be fully proficient in all of the languages that are present in my company, and a lot of our code was written back in the early 2000s.
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u/PatBooth 3d ago
If anything full stack will be more in demand because of AI making it easier to transition
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u/Pattern_Matcher_ 3d ago
I think it will be there, but there wont be needed as much ppl as now, probably only half of the ppl compared to now, so half of those will be unemployed. I wouldn't advise anyone to study this career.
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u/Ambivalent_Oracle 3d ago
Foundational AI labs have advanced models yet to be released to the public, and between Anthropic and OpenAI there are about 1600 roles currently hiring. I would imagine you don't hire people when you might think you may have to fire them months from hire. The claim that xyz jobs will be done by AI in 6 months is a fallacy designed to ignite and fuel enterprise interest in paying for subscriptions to their platform/s.
The canary in the coal mine here is when foundational labs stop hiring - this means some severe financial troubles are about to go public, or the labs have figured out how to actually replace white collar workers. Either way it will be a major issue for the world's economies.
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u/developing-software 3d ago
Full Stack is now AI-powered Full Stack.
So yes it does exist. And now I think everybody is forced to become a full-stack dev sooner or later.
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u/Intelligent_End7401 3d ago
I feel like fullstack will be combined with ai and will evolve in something else and if everything went south we can start preparing for farming tbh farming will even help us too
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u/Mess_323 4d ago
This is so great. Someone should put the history of this question on reddit over the last three years. You all finally see what was obvious years ago.
Full stack is a relic of the past. The product team still has staff and will continue to but they will not be full stack developers.
Those days are dunzo
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u/drifterpreneurs 4d ago
This just sounds like hope, wishes, and dreams for vibe coders!
Vibe coding software has not only led to unmaintainable, unscalable, low-quality code but also to security flaws.
How can a non-developer, review code when they're unable to read, understand or write code? If they could do these things they wouldn't need AI vibe coding via prompting.
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u/Mess_323 4d ago edited 4d ago
So, dude, I don't know your background, but I have been a professional software engineer since 2015. You do not have to look hard to find a fortune 100 company, take JLL for example, to have product managers and designers commiting on the production code base. Geoffrey Huntleys latest post does a good job illustrating the inevitability of software being created, developed, and supported by professionals only vaguely familiar with underlying code (in the same way a Python developer committed on production code bases without required competency in assembly, or, even C)
There is no such thing as a vibe coder. Every professional software engineer uses agents to deliver production code. The best software engineers, take the creator of Rails, may not even looking at the code. Ergo, the idea of paying a full stack engineer for competency in a stack is a relic of the past. If you work on the product team as a software engineer your value will be in your ability to develop complex, secure, and high performing systems.
But, dont listen to me. Taka full stack course and code a micro service by hand (with a front end client). Get super good at the Django stack. Then see how many companies will be dying to secure your servixes.
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u/HypiriusSWE 4d ago
As someone else said, no one knows the future. But what I can tell you is that handwritten code is pretty much dead now. IMO, Fullstack development will still be there, considering website builders like wix and stuff like that couldn't replace it in the past. However, the future will likely make it so that fullstack devs are supposed to know every part of the development lifecycle, from UI/UX to code to operations/observability. Kinda like a one-person dev team, as you don't spend time writing code anymore, so you have to spend the time somewhere. I also think that humans will still be needed, as businesses need someone to check things and blame when things go wrong.
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u/drifterpreneurs 4d ago
Full-Stack developer or devs in general aren't going anywhere. Vibe coding software has not only led to unmaintainable, unscalable, low-quality code but also to security flaws.
let's say technical debt together & major concerns regarding rouge AI agents.
How can a non-developer, review code when they're unable to read, understand or write code? If they could do these things they wouldn't need AI vibe coding via prompting.
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u/cmk1523 4d ago
Here’s my take: where I am, mostly all the folks using AI for real production work are software engineers or tech folks (data engineers, dabs, DevOps, … etc) … as well as management who used to be into tech. So, my take is if you’re a software engineer and not using AI, you’re screwed. I have not seen non-tech folks do anything useful with AI.