If he'll probably never hire another pure sysadmin then he'll probably never build anything of scale that people will pay for. Sysadmins do a lot of stuff, and

If he'll probably never hire another pure sysadmin then he'll probably never build anything of scale that people will pay for. Sysadmins do a lot of stuff, and this is only somewhat reduced by cloud services. Or is he expecting to get the developers to maintain OS versions, security patches, log monitoring, proxy servers, database replication, backups, firewall rules, failover testing and so on across dozens or hundreds of systems? Right. Absurd.