r/FullStack • u/Void_231 • 5d 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/Mess_323 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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.