[nkantar]

While the sentiment of the piece—versatility > specialization—can certainly make sense, I can’t help but feel like it’s just a rant idealizing the type of person who invests significantly more than their workday into their craft, which I haven’t at all found to be much of a predictor of ability or even attitude. I know some great software engineers who do a ton of programming outside of work, and I know some great ones who do none.

> I don't want the GUI guys. I don't want the database guys. I don't want the middleware guys.

I don’t want a team of just a "guys", regardless of its and their abilities. Huge omission in a piece ultimately purporting to promote diversity (of thought).

> language specialist AKA snob

Those are two different things. I consider myself a Python specialist because I greatly enjoy working with the Python ecosystem (which is significantly broader than just the language itself) and thus prefer it whenever it’s a reasonable choice, but have also used other ecosystems and continue to do so, partly to learn.