The article is saying that tech jobs are declining due to high interest rates. It's also saying that companies now expect you to perform tasks from multiple departments, leading to burnout and low job satisfaction when you do get a job.
Thanks for the summary, skimmed it and it's too long of a time commitment for what appears like little payoff.
Sure companies want the Full Stack -> Do-Everything hire - who wouldn't, I'd like a goose that lays golden eggs but there is no market to provide that. I see this change as merely a side effect of the state of the market where hirers of labor feel they can make such demands.
What I find interesting and did not find explored in the article is that the overhead for establishing a company is far lower than what it used to be so there is more potential for Do-Everything people to just do that little bit more to include all the other functions of the company. Many of the functions needed to run a company are not needed at such a small scale that necessitates a Do-Everything hire.
I know not everyone is cut out for that, but not everyone is not cut out for the Do-Everything level of responsibilities either, and those that can do the latter are more likely to be able to do the former. That's what I did, I built up my skill stack working as a Full-Stack / Do-Everything engineer then learned business and marketing on top and went solo. These days I have a good laugh when I read about some start-up that raised some money based on delivering X is also advertising for jobs that are basically build X from scratch by yourself.
The original reason I had an LLM summarize it was to see if the parent had themselves used an LLM to make their summary.
And then it turned out to include some extra info from the linked article that for me was sufficient to decide that I should read the whole linked article.
So that’s why I posted it in this sub thread.
(For the record I also think there is a difference between quoting LLM output in a comment, vs people who post LLM written slop and passing it off as something they themselves wrote.)
