It&#x27;s perfectly fine to produce boring products. Data entry has never been fun, but it&#x27;s needed.<p>Creating new algorithms or data structures may be scientifically creative. I don&#x27;t know, maybe it&#x27;s boring for the scientists and they think reasoning and writing about these is much more fun and creative than implementing them. Anyways it just one kind of creativity.<p>But there is creativity in &#x27;just gluing&#x27; stuff together. It&#x27;s not that simple and there is more choice involved than you suggest.