I've been automating myself out of a job as long as I've been a coder, which has become a considerable span of time; that is my job.

same here, been automating my work for 40 years starting with a data entry job I had in 1994 as an office temp, wrote a C program to do the whole thing for me, hung out on IRC all day where I made connections to get my first dot-com job

somehow I still keep having work to do!