many other folks have written about it, but just adding my own notes. with cloudflare recently announcing a layoff of ~20% of their workforce and notably a concept/practice of moving to a “team of one” approach where engineers essentially become “full stack” … yeh bringing that back it seems. essentially loading on various types of work into one person that would have previously been many, of course with the heavy-help of Ai.
now, full-stack wasn’t so bad, but you could definitely tell when a person leaned a specific way in their knowledge; e.g. design, devops, coding, etc.. even project management/organizational skills. now, we are seemingly standardizing some roles with Ai deep in the mix. So now now, from my perspective it’s the solutions/thinkers-heads that can capitalize and really drive value because they can “get it” by digging in and relying on their skills for comprehension, and just doing.
Of course those with varying levels of risk aversion will go different distances, and almost like “we” are encouraging taking risks again… the ol “just ship it”
back to cognitive load. of course the full-stackers can “do all the things” but at what cost? a big or little bug? stress? burnout? we’ll see, but probably a mix of all of it.
feeling like I’ll have followups to this topic…
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