[harshaw]

I don't think they are boring, but very important on the kind of engineer you are. At AWS I try to encourage people who like the problem space and at the very least appreciate it, but can totally understand that you don't want to do your entire career on it. Many of our younger folks have never felt the speed and joy you can get with hammering out a simple app (web, python, ML) that doesn't have to work at scale.