Comment by zmmmmm

This is a really dumb point from my point of view.

People vastly over rate the novelty of software work. The vast majority of the time, it's at least got conceptual similarity to things created before. A lot of the time, being "radically new" is a huge negative. It's a recipe for something nobody can understand or maintain. Almost all software is mild variations on existing things that are assembled to create something new in feature space, but its nearly 100% mind numbingly boring in the methodology of how it is built.