"People said I did the impossible, but that’s wrong: I merely did something so boring that nobody else had been willing to do it."

Well, for some people it is indeed impossible to keep on working on boring tasks regulary without going crazy or dying inside.

I feel like this. And I was proven right on quite some times - to not do an endless work of stupidity - and instead find a clever way around to automate and save on it.

Famous example would be the young Gauss, whose teacher gave them the task of adding all the numbers from 1 to 100, expecting them to be busy for a while. And Gauss just did (n+1)*n/2=5050 and was done.

The problem is just, that very often there is no magic bullet like this and the work remains just dull work (like in the article) - and then you can just loose by searching for the magic solution, while avoiding the actual work.

Organisational it makes sense, to have enough people capable of reliable doing dull work - and smart (but lazy) people who come up with clever tricks to save the dull workers at least some grinding.