boring engineering activity

The concept I want to follow here is that there is a lot of talk about AI and automation removing “the boring” tasks from engineering. However, it is the boring tasks that give meaning and enjoyment to the elegant, exciting tasks. Without the boring tasks, we wont know the minutia that makes the larger exciting tasks such, and thus they wont be exciting or elegant. This isn’t saying “good” we’ll move them to the boring tasks and newer higher level exciting things will occur, but that we’ll lose the plot in building quality software