web developers like the OP can very easily go the way of any other field that has been killed by sufficient automation. i don't see CRUD-app development as a ro

web developers like the OP can very easily go the way of any other field that has been killed by sufficient automation. i don't see CRUD-app development as a robust, long term skill, despite how well paying it has been the last decade. if you consider 'surfing' to mean always being up on the latest web framework or library, as many do, then I think that is too narrow a scope to consider yourself immune from being automated out of a job. if you consider 'surfing' to be looking at broader strokes in other areas of computer science and software eating the world in general, then that's a different story. you have to diversify.