Programming is a unique field: if you're doing it right, it should never be dull. Frustrating? Draining? Rage-inducing? Sometimes. But not mind-numbing. Why? Because we can build our own tools. If we find ourselves doing repetitive work, we can build a tool to automate that work. This automation is itself likely at least somewhat interesting. What isn't repetitive and that can't be automated should be interesting as well.

If you find yourself bottlenecked on typing while programming, it's a signal that you should stop what you're doing and write some automation or abstraction. Sometimes you can just structure a program so that it requires less typing --- almost always a good thing.

In the rare cases where you need to be verbose in source code, you can use build-time source code generation, or failing that, an editor snippet library. I like yasnippet for that purpose.

Back at Microsoft, NT kernel style requires a big doc-comment before each major function. (These comments are extremely helpful --- but that's beside the point.) The doc comment's style is a bit more complex than Javadoc; there are multiple sections (e.g., description, arguments) and specific indentation requirements within each section.

I found it very annoying to write and format these comments. Instead of just cursing doc comment writing all day, I took a week and solved the problem. I taught Emacs to highlight and indent these comments. I taught M-q to reformat paragraphs exactly as needed. I added code to automatically generate a skeleton description from the function prototype. And after all that, I was never bothered by the doc comment stuff again.

(Incidentally, in a big monolithic IDE, I think the barrier to this kind of extension would have too high to bother with, and I'd have been left cursing this code.)