While it is important to keep our egos in check, I think this article leans a bit on the side of discounting modern web computing. Not all of us twiddle around

While it is important to keep our egos in check, I think this article leans a bit on the side of discounting modern web computing. Not all of us twiddle around with CRUD apps all day. Running a site with millions of concurrent users is challenging, and useful. Sites like twitter or reddit enable social change and transparency. Running a site with one hundred users doing real work is challenging too. Allowing one or two people to do a job that would have taken 10 people just a few years ago (ie: sales force, accounting systems, gis systems, big data analytics, etc.). Also, he talks about how web devs are like plumbers with toilet fixing robots. This would be true if the plumbers happened to build the robots themselves. Who does he think built Rails, Http, Express, Sinatra, Cake, Mongo, MySQL, and every other open source web technology out there? People like you and me. The web is an amazing thing, quite possibly humanity's greatest achievement so far, and we are still working on making it better. One last thing. The author seems to think web devs just think about colors all day. Is he not hacking, exploring, and building things? Someone who talks about colors all day is a web designer imo. Nothing wrong with that, but entirely different focus.