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Same here, being that developer on the team that would embrace build and deployment scripts, means that for the last 30 years, I have always to jungle around, am I a developer, a systems administrator, network engineer, or whatever is fashionable as term for upper management.

The worse part of the fashionable job titles is that both management and HR love to put people on little boxes, and generalists are a big headache for them, on top of deteriorating the actual original meanings of these roles.




I used to work at a startup during the 2k tech bubble and a coworker had the title "General Specialist" on their business cards.

It's something I still aspire to be :)


It's not a great time to be a generalist. Companies want X years of experience with their bespoke tech stack only to even get you in for an interview.




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