I've spent years building things, and honestly, I've never wanted to specialize in just one corner of it. Every project seemed to need something different, and I kept meeting it head-on — backend mostly, but that word ends up covering a lot more ground than it sounds like it should.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking of myself as "a .NET developer" or "a Java developer" and started thinking of myself as someone who genuinely enjoys figuring things out: APIs, architecture, messaging, data, infrastructure, and now AI systems too. Not because I'm collecting technologies for the sake of it, but because I care about actually understanding the things I build.