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Definitely getting crypto vibes here: "the real hackers are the ones staying up late improving Merkle tree implementations!" Probably read something like that three years ago or so, likely on Medium as well.

The narratives people tell themselves to self-justify their involvement are weird.

> You can find interesting problems in many banal situations. You only have to look.

Unfortunately (unrelated to AI and co), this is also a problem; many engineers write overcomplicated solutions for simple / banal problems, because they get bored otherwise.

Then give your engineers more interesting problems. Or give them more freedom. Or give them days where they can work on whatever they want. There are plenty of options to correct that course.

I disagree. Depends on your definition of "interesting" of course, but I believe that really interesting problems are hard to find.

The failed Kwisatz Haderach.