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Introduction: Specialist vs. Generalist

Discover how being a specialist or a generalist influences your development career. Learn to recognize how specialization varies by perspective and how to leverage this understanding to tailor your path in software engineering. This lesson helps you grasp the nuances and flexible nature of technical focus areas to guide your professional growth.

Specialist or generalist?

Let’s get this out of the way you can be extremely successful as either a specialist or a generalist. It just happens that different situations call for different types of developers.

Specialization is in the eye of the beholder

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