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Specialization hasn't occurred because everything keeps changing and specialists become either stagnant, bored or unemployable.

The size of a brick was standardized in 1840, then 1970 for metric. Let's get that kind of stability in software before we start specializing

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I think specialization still occurs in our field but it’s more domain driven than tech driven. I know folks that have built their careers in banking, auth, crypto, billing and healthcare. In each of those cases your language will differ but there are always similarities in that domain.

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