I really feel like the web today - the turnover, the frameworks, The Cloud, the burying of old under new - is the automation trend working faster and harder than ever. It all works better for the 80% case than an individual doing it from scratch - so we all succumb to it. And that&#x27;s always been true of technology, but it used to be at the behest of a big platform owner like an MS or Sun or Apple. They set the marching orders and developers hopped on the bandwagon. You redid everything for the new platform.<p>But with the Web, the genie is truly out of the bottle and nobody can put it back in. It&#x27;s the same shitty platform as ever, with more and more kludges added on. So we look to automation for a silver bullet, and by sheer force of numbers we&#x27;ve succeeded in building something that Just Works most of the time and requires deep technical skills to fix otherwise.