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Thirty years ago at my first job, a senior dev told me "2% of what we do is interesting. 98% is sort, select, sum."

(I think then that was more or less true, but the numbers in the industry as a whole have gotten a lot better in the past 30 years. And I've gotten better jobs.)




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