Some creative apps are dataflow systems. Dataflow maps very well to GUIs and intelligent tools. For the parts which aren't dataflow, you end up with the same ma

Some creative apps are dataflow systems. Dataflow maps very well to GUIs and intelligent tools. For the parts which aren't dataflow, you end up with the same manual labour that you have in code editing. Video editing, for instance, is quite similar to code editing. Juggling large libraries of assets, trying to make things fit together on the level of details and taste while maintaining an intelligible and manageable whole and keeping to a deadline. You have tools to help you keep track of things, but you're still mostly on your own.