I choose to be amused. I mean, in software, so much is cyclical, it's not even that most ideas have already been tried, it's the number of times it's been tried

I choose to be amused. I mean, in software, so much is cyclical, it's not even that most ideas have already been tried, it's the number of times it's been tried. Or the idea is like 'what if we used AI to magically decide what to do'. I have heard some good ideas that would unfortunately be a ton of work and have a small audience, so the effort doesn't seem worth the possible reward. The most fun idea pitch I had was when someone pitched a solution to me which was something I actually have a patent on. So like seconds into the pitch, I'm like 'oh yeah, I have a patent for that; we tried it, it didn't work' that made my day and continues to provide me amusement for many years. Although, there is a company that commercialized it, so clearly I missed something or tried it at the wrong time / with the wrong platform or the wrong group of users.