- Tags:: #🗞️Articles, [[Career tips|Career tips]] - Author:: [[Vicki boykis|Vicki Boykis]] - Link:: https://web.archive.org/web/20201020205712/https://vicki.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-non-expert-expert - Finished date:: [[2020-10-31]] - Source date:: [[2020-01-20]] > Because we have so many different software products, services, languages, and steps to production for any given piece of software, there is no such thing as a senior developer anymore (...) Or rather, there is no such thing as a senior developer who has both the depth required in earlier development environments, and now, the breadth required from the modern software stack. >What distinguishes them now **is breadth and, I think, the ability to discern patterns** and carry them across multiple parts of a stack, multiple stacks, and multiple jobs working in multiple industries.