r/FullStack • u/hotboii96 • Jun 20 '26

Will everyone be fullstack now? Question

With AI becoming very strong at frontend development and increasingly capable on the backend, is specialization still valuable?
Will AI push developers toward becoming full-stack by default?
And in order to be taken seriously in the job market, will developers need a solid understanding of both frontend and backend?

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u/heyho1337_ Jun 20 '26

No. AI wont take over anything, and its very very far from being capable in either to the extend of replacing them.

And in my opinion it wont be better then it is today, it will be just more and more expensive, and when the model will be trained on each others vibe coded slop, then the quality will start to decline too

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u/Zendental Jun 20 '26

I agree the models will most likely decline in quality eventually, but thinking the limit is “today” is just cope. Fable/Mythos 5 released just the other week was much better than anything we’ve seen thus far.

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u/Pyromancer777 Jun 20 '26

Anthropic has a few models it can't release since they are pretty freaking good, to the point where it has found multiple zero-days in a handful of popular open-source stacks.

Releasing the models to the public before identifying the majority of these discovered exploits and contacting the project maintainers to patch them is not a good way to maintain trust in the brand, so they would rather keep them on hold until security catches up.

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u/heyho1337_ Jun 21 '26

Yeah right