And, by the time you "know it all", the playing field has changed.

RESTful APIs? Nope, we are going full-gRPC.

No hand-rolled OAuth - we are using AuthSolution1. Forget that, AuthSolution1 has a security vulnerability, we are going with AuthSolution2. Wait, AuthSolution2 won't work with cloud providers database offering... let's try AuthSolution3.

Let's use IFTTT. No, how about Zapier. But, we need gRPC and now GraphQL.

The databases are over-provisioned, lets look at serverless as a critical path item. Executive VP #2 thinks we should use a NoSQL solution.

BTW: Cloud provider X is dropping support for database version 1.1, we need to migrate to 2.0... or skip ahead to the just-released 3.0.

And, then the CEO comes and asks: "Can you spend some time trying to get ChatGPT to build this whole thing for us?"