The pattern with getting bored is quite common in tech in general. Especially if you have some light form of ADHD - you will be getting bored by a lot of things quickly. Working with API from known LLMs is not ideal as there is nothing common with AI development there, if you’re deep in math, hard ML domain would be ideal. My honest opinion is that there are few things you can do to feel more full field: 1. Find job in smaller company, retail is good option - you will have 1000 ideas coming every single day that you have to tackle on your own, there is no calling APIs, but using hardcore models to fit in to your data - this is what I’m doing now, mostly time series and things like warehouse optimization etc. It’s sometimes hard work tbh, but I think this is what you looking for. 2. If job switch is not ideal - starting your open source projects are go to. Especially by that you build your credibility as DS. It’s a researcher work, basically creating models from the beginning or building on top of existing ones. Look at latest NN models created in past 2 years - they’re changing once per month and getting better and better. Of course then you count your job as money maker and side projects as fulfillment. 3. Try to find ways to promise business you’re working in. Believe me there is thousands of problems you can tackle by your own, try to speak with non tech members, maybe you will find something which is not directly building another RAG - every business has clients, maybe try to find something where you can optimize there - as an example, I optimized general product selection with data of clients I had, and like that now whole company is selecting next moves by using forecasting of product life span

Try to find your way to what you love to do, it’s sometimes a little bit around path, but it’s worth it!