- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Career Tips
- Author:: 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.