What I took away from the post is this. There is a certain quality metric that one needs to be aware of to do a good job at X. Programmers all do Sysadmin work

What I took away from the post is this. There is a certain quality metric that one needs to be aware of to do a good job at X. Programmers all do Sysadmin work from time to time. And founders always double as Sysadmins. But just because its not your primary role doesnt mean you can leave random ports open and do a really bad sysadmin job. The same is true of UX design. But the problem is while the distance from programmer to sysadmin seems to be a short walk, the distance from programmer to UI/UX from my experience is a long one. Sure, we cannot/should not afford another guy with a title, but Graham is pointing out a valid blindspot for all of us and it should be taken into account when making decisions.