[JMTQp8lwXL]

The conversation is missing a dimension: How big can the domain be? One can be a specialist in JavaScript, for example. But you could just as well say you specialize in React or Vue, as the article says. A React developer might say person who does all JavaScript is a generalist; the JavaScript developer could point to a full stack engineer and say "that's an actual generalist".

The opaqueness makes it difficult to discuss the topic further.

[tdesilva]

Yeah. It seems like the author considers himself a generalist, but it sounds to me like he's a front end specialist.

[arcturus17]

Or a front-end generalist?

The use of one word or another indeed seems to depend on the optics.

[DonHopkins]

Or an all-end specialist. (I like big bugs and I cannot lie!)