It's a different mindset once you start thinking in those terms. Inventing a new technology sounds impossible but writing some code isn't difficult. You'll be less likely to get paralyzed daydreaming about the lofty future of this new technology if it's just some code that can be thrown away at any time for something better.

When we list humanities technological inventions a century from now, I don't think we will be listing CockroachDB or similar.