Do those once and you’ve done them a hundred times. Vast majority of software engineering is tedious and boring. Almost no developing cutting edge optimal algo

Do those once and you’ve done them a hundred times. Vast majority of software engineering is tedious and boring. Almost no developing cutting edge optimal algorithms. Occasionally interesting design/architecture problems but the majority of the time spent on those is on writing docs, consensus building/communication, and implementation. It’s hard to find the motivation and force yourself to spend week after week chasing down bugs through poorly written code, but almost no task itself is challenging.