Automation hits white collar professions as a massive productivity improvements for the top performers displacing everyone else working in the field (think the

Automation hits white collar professions as a massive productivity improvements for the top performers displacing everyone else working in the field (think the top 10% of people in your position doing 100% of the work). In web development this is most apparent (to me) in SAAS application development, where many/most of the underlying pieces of building a CRUD application that can scale to thousands of users, and be really functional are now provided by other SAAS apps which provide a _better_ service than the average developer can scrape together themselves. Billing -> stripe.com over writing against the gateways directly Database/Hosting -> Heroku PostGres/Redis and compute Email -> Sendgrid, Mandrill, ActiveCampaign Or even just SAAS frameworks like BulletTrain (Rails) or Laravel Spark which dramatically cut down on the boilerplate and integration code you'd have to write.