This is the correct answer. I view my career through this lens now: I aim to find things to work on that I believe are very likely to remain in that frontier t

This is the correct answer. I view my career through this lens now: I aim to find things to work on that I believe are very likely to remain in that frontier that remains classified as "software". I find this useful when thinking about companies and projects. If they seem to be building a CRUD app with clients for different platforms, at a small to medium scale, that might not be far enough into the frontier for me. This is purely a matter of taste or personality. Another very useful (and probably more lucrative) thing to do is to find ways to leverage the ever-increasing ability to build that kind of simple but useful application for some domain without writing much or any of your own "software". But for me, that just doesn't match my interests as well.