If you have, I don’t think you are like majority of devs (maybe not on HN, but in real life).

You sound lucky to have true, novel problems to solve each day. I’m with many here commenting that this is quite powerful stuff, especially when my day-to-day is writing simple CRUD apps, or transforming data from one format to another within an API, or configuring some new bit of infra or CI/CD.

I’d love to be challenged in some new way, and have access to truly fascinating problems that require novel solutions. But most enterprises aren’t really like that nor do that need that from majority of engineers.