> When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit. Unless you're working on somethin

> When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit. Unless you're working on something with a lot of breadth, of course. A great example is yt-dlp which works on a huge number of sites. The wow-factor is high because it feels like it just works everywhere. That's only possible through a huge number of data parsers, many of which are not terribly different from one another