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Yeah. A few years ago the zeitgeist was "principal engineers" and then it turned into "staff engineers" and then "staff+".

As the GP said these titles have existed for a long time. But for whatever reason there's also been a progression in terms of them being super common in social media discussions.

The cynic in me says that it is driven by a certain subset of Internet Famous Devs progressing through their career.




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