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I like solving puzzles. I like algorithms. Every once in a while I even get to use them at my job! Solving these kinds of things is at most 5-10% of a developer’s job, and that’s probably a stretch in reality. The number of times I’ve seen things like dynamic programming come up in a real world application are vanishingly small, and rarely will you need to roll your own implementation rather than using a third party library. Even if you’re working on a library like that, considerations of good software design principles, infrastructure and the like will consume a large portion of your time.