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I have been doing it for almost 10 years and I will still never remember everything.

I am calling full-stack devs BS. If fs devs remember everything they are probably hyper fixated on one particular design model.

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I will let you in on a little secret. Very few devs, full stack or otherwise, remember everything on any non-trivial system. What the experience gives you is the ability to read and comprehend code that is new to you very quickly. And “new to you” code includes code you wrote a year ago and haven’t touched since.

> And “new to you” code includes code you wrote a year ago and haven’t touched since.

True, dat. I write code and documentation for future Me[0].

I can’t remember lots of stuff, and Google the most basic stuff, every day.

But my stuff ships, works well, and tends to last. I think actual results can count. That seems to be a minority opinion, these days, but what do I know? I have to Google basic stuff, so I suppose that means I don’t know what I’m doing.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

There’s a difference between full stack and solo developers. There’s absolute overlap, but being aware of the stack and actually being the person who put it all together are different.

All my solo projects I was intimately familiar with. Start adding people and you naturally start losing complete grasp of the project.

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