IMO Every engineer should try spending his time in a company that tries to solve new problems.

Otherwise we will be stuck, as we are now, with big tech paying you mountains of money for doing nothing, incentivizing you to embark on useless activities for letting other managers have a career, fear layoffs and when that happen complaining about it because "it's a year i'm looking for a new job" pretending same compensation and environment. Web development jobs are particularly affected by that.

In the game industry, for example, if you don't do something interesting your game won't sell a copy.

Let me stress this out again, if LLMs get you 97% there, maybe you should try another idea.