Comment by rodrigodlu

That's my perception as well. Most of the time, most of the devs I know, including myself, are not really creating novelty with the code itself, but with the product. (Sometimes even the product is not novel, just a similar enhanced version of existing products)

If the resulting code is not trying to be excessively clever or creative this is actually a good thing in my book.

The novelty and creativity should come from the product itself, especially from the users/customers perspective. Some people are too attached to LLM leaderboards being about novelty. I want reliable results whenever I give the instructions, either be the code, or the specs built into a spec file after throwing some ideas into prompts.