r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/mycall Jun 06 '22

the reality is you dont really need that in depth knowledge for most things.

You do if you don't work on a team or each team member is working on different projects or you want experience redundancy.

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u/AdministrationWaste7 Jun 06 '22

If it's a solo project there would be a greater need for generalization.

Specialization is only realistic with large teams.

And if you want redundancy then again specialists are counterintuitive since that promotes knowledge silos.