I do think that as more things become programmable and hence part of software, the odds that a given project is novel increases. If you maximize the Lisp/hacker

I do think that as more things become programmable and hence part of software, the odds that a given project is novel increases. If you maximize the Lisp/hacker/Dry approach, any new code should be novel; if something is just a repeat, you should make an abstraction to make it the same; instead of hand made websites just configure your Wordpress or Django or whatever.