[danielharrison]

Proper full stack devs are rare, but they do exits, and they're worth their weight in gold to any company with under 50 staff. I've been 'full stack' my entire career but it takes a long time to actually become a competent full stack dev.

A proper full stack dev can make design and implementation decisions at all levels, while being able to visualise the affect of those changes over the entire system, in detail, at low level. They're also able to communicate these changes not only to a uber-low-level introverted developer, they're also able to sit with the CEO/CTO and rationalise their decision in terms of cost and savings.

And of course, they're able to drop anchor, exit the elevator at any level and get on the tools.