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Ignoring hard problems like memory safety and parallelization (let's say), I think the biggest soft problem that I experience is optimizing the amount of time spent doing work relative to setting up boilerplate - mainly during web programming, i.e. it took me literally a few days to work out how to use code from and deploy node_modules without cheating.

Not trivial but maybe automated by some meta-meta-build tool?

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Most, if not all tooling, comes with a learning curve. But once you pay it, that initial ramp up time is not required on the next project.

I could start a new project with Spring Boot and Ember.js, provision a Debian box with Postgres and nginx, and deploy all of it within an hour because I know these tools. But I too paid the learning price my first go round.

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