I also agree with 2-5, but don't agree that specialists always get further than generalists. I'm very much a generalist -- within the fairly broad realm of infrastructure architecture, that is -- and I think that's served me very well. To understand the whole thing, whatever it is, is very valuable.
Within your world you may be a generalist, but the OP is not a programmer and many if not most of the people he is talking about are not either. To them and most people you are very specialized.
