AI didn't make my job easier. It made me full-stack overnight — as a beginner at everything.

I'm a product manager. My job used to have clear handoffs: I'd gather the material, hand it to a designer for mockups, then pass it to a front-end teammate to build.

Now, with AI, I do all of it myself. I've been building a product landing page almost entirely with AI, and I can go from an idea to a decent-looking page in one sitting. The first impression is genuinely impressive — "wow, this actually looks like a real page."

But then you look closer. Spacing that's slightly off. Copy that reads fine but not quite right. Responsive behavior that breaks on mobile. Edge cases nobody thought about. Suddenly I'm sitting there like a junior designer AND a junior front-end dev, nudging the AI through a hundred tiny details to get from "looks good" to "actually shippable."

And that's the part I keep sitting with: AI didn't remove the work — it moved the whole pipeline onto one person. We're all being quietly pushed into becoming full-stack workers. Except we're beginners at most of it, learning on the fly. It's powerful. It's also genuinely tiring.

There's an upside — once you've walked through those details once, you build real intuition and learn to brief the AI better. But I keep wondering: as AI keeps getting stronger, does everyone just become a tired generalist? Or is there still a real edge in going deep on one thing?

Anyone else feel this? Is AI making you a full-stack worker whether you wanted to or not?