The age of just writing custom code for most solutions is coming to a close. The companies who create the new standards and "platforms" (Google, Microsoft, open source groups, et. al.) will still need developers to cook applications from new code, but the bulk of the rest of us will be increasingly involved in 1) picking and choosing among the components we need that these standards makers offer, and 2) wiring together the services exposed by these platforms.
There seems to be a lot of resistance among the developers I talk to about this shift. I hope you're ready for this.
