[jstummbillig]

In webdev, increasingly often, the expectation is that programmers not only to do the backend, but also the database management, the frontend (which used to be graphic design, css/html, and js, separately) and everything devops.

Outside of webdev, Unity springs to mind, as another great example of this: The stuff you can do as a single game developer is mind boggling, or at least used to be, until indie devs everywhere started boggling our minds on a daily basis and thus raising the standard of what consumers expect an indie game to be.

This is, of course, not possible because within 50 years humans evolved to be a lot better or smarter or faster than their predecessors. It is made possible through more flexible higher level tooling, that you don't have to understand the inner workings of to take advantage of, and more abundant computing resources, that in tandem, enable work that will be in the "good enough" territory for most use cases.

This is also not a choice that programmers as individuals or even a group make. It's a choice that the market makes.

There is nothing naive about it. Naive is assuming, it would be any other way.

[jtms]

In web dev I have observed the opposite trend: when I first started my career everyone was expected to be full stack and know how to deploy a thing. nowadays devs tend to be strictly front end or back end or dev ops, etc. Devs that can optimize a sql query, model a db schema and then write a well organized react or angular front end seem to be the exception not the rule.

[tripzilch]

> In webdev, increasingly often, the expectation is that programmers not only to do the backend, but also the database management, the frontend (which used to be graphic design, css/html, and js, separately) and everything devops.

What do you mean, increasingly often? This was the case 15 years ago already and I see only examples that it has gotten less, because of all the frameworks that exist.

Also it's exactly what I liked about webdev. When your existing talents for graphics design and explainer-of-technical-things shine in a tech context, that feels good. A lot of programmers have no feel for this, and a lot of designers write awful code. Which could have, but historically did NOT improve at all with higher level tooling, mainly because of this "good enough" attitude. Feel free to prove me otherwise, but what did happen: Thanks to things like Bootstrap, now programmers can avoid the worst design mistakes without having to learn design. Graphics Designers, however, well .. I don't know? Are there tools that allow them to write or generate code that doesn't suck? (Without programming skills, like the coders without design skills).

> This is also not a choice that programmers as individuals or even a group make. It's a choice that the market makes.

> There is nothing naive about it. Naive is assuming, it would be any other way.

I don't know ... Do you believe there no longer exist people that deliver quality over this entire skill set? Or that they somehow exist outside of the market?