I think the definition of "mundane" is continually shifted, at least WRT to programming. At one point, "mundane" was Minesweeper in Win32. Now it's a Rails ap

I think the definition of "mundane" is continually shifted, at least WRT to programming. At one point, "mundane" was Minesweeper in Win32. Now it's a Rails app with authentication, monitoring, logging, background services, queues, AJAX, etc. Or a mobile app with remote backend services. Both are well-covered by intro level MOOCs today, letting new devs cut their teeth by building a Twitter clones. Maybe the next step for "mundane" programming is distributed computing in the form of Akka, Spark and so forth.