There is a more reasonable interpretation to "summarizing what's on StackOverflow" than the pure face value
There are many "Solved problems" which you're disincentivized to try to solve personally (sayauth or encryption) since implementing a widely accepted solution tends to have aditional credibility and you're not likely to have any additional value to add
That's what I think of when I see that phrase, similar to my current work, I'm creating basically a glorified CRUD for a small business to try and reduce their manual paperwork, none of the programming is particularly technical, and whatever platonic ideal of the system I had for it to be smart has been positively removed by the people that will use the system, since they prefer it to be completely manual because they're supposed to make the decisions
The Business logic isn't particularly complicated, and anyone competent could have done the same by taking a random accepeted SO answer and adapting the code
There are many "Solved problems" which you're disincentivized to try to solve personally (sayauth or encryption) since implementing a widely accepted solution tends to have aditional credibility and you're not likely to have any additional value to add
That's what I think of when I see that phrase, similar to my current work, I'm creating basically a glorified CRUD for a small business to try and reduce their manual paperwork, none of the programming is particularly technical, and whatever platonic ideal of the system I had for it to be smart has been positively removed by the people that will use the system, since they prefer it to be completely manual because they're supposed to make the decisions
The Business logic isn't particularly complicated, and anyone competent could have done the same by taking a random accepeted SO answer and adapting the code