> Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a senior level of expertise.
In the first paragraph, the author sets up a really weak straw man for himself to defeat. If you define "full-stack engineer" as "an expert at front and back end", it's pretty easy to not believe in it since you may as well be restricting the category to people who are 3σ. If you define "full-stack engineer" as someone who "can do front and back end moderately well". This is much easier to believe in.
In the first paragraph, the author sets up a really weak straw man for himself to defeat. If you define "full-stack engineer" as "an expert at front and back end", it's pretty easy to not believe in it since you may as well be restricting the category to people who are 3σ. If you define "full-stack engineer" as someone who "can do front and back end moderately well". This is much easier to believe in.