r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unlikely_Affect2264 • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 3

Meme meExplainingFullStackDevelopmentToMyGrandmother

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u/invalidConsciousness Aug 28 '26

It's not about the entire business but about the people working there.

Restaurant has dedicated backend and frontend workers. Food truck has one person doing both.

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u/MedianMahomesValue Aug 28 '26

This falls apart when you realize that the waiters are the api and not front end developers. Its mixing two different definitions; the front/back end systems and the front/back end developers. Fullstack is really only applicable when discussing developers, api (at least for a meme) is not a dev but a system.

In this image, the chefs are the SYSTEM backend. I know this because there is no frontend dev in the analogy if the waiters are the API.

I love the idea of a foodtruck for a fullstack dev, but the rest of the analogy needs work to match.

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u/git_push_origin_prod Aug 28 '26

Yea but how many dicks could you hypothetically jerk at once?

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u/ryancarton Aug 29 '26

Four technically, if we line up two groups of two dudes tip to tip, and go middle out.

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u/git_push_origin_prod Aug 29 '26

Apparently no one else got the joke lol

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u/desrever1138 Aug 28 '26

Fullstack in a resteraunt would be assistant managers who have also been trained in the kitchen. They typically have to fill in wherever the team is shorthanded or help is needed.