You know what's the problem with boring code? It's boring. This means its information content is low, and its abstraction level is low. This means that you need more of it to express an algorithm.
When you have a lot of wordy, boring code to maintain, you have to make coordinated changes in more similarly boring places. A human's brain can only keep that many lines of context. So it becomes easier to make a mistake.
A problem nicely summarized by Yaron Minsky (of Jane Street): "You can’t pay people enough to carefully debug boring boilerplate code. I’ve tried."
When you have a lot of wordy, boring code to maintain, you have to make coordinated changes in more similarly boring places. A human's brain can only keep that many lines of context. So it becomes easier to make a mistake.
A problem nicely summarized by Yaron Minsky (of Jane Street): "You can’t pay people enough to carefully debug boring boilerplate code. I’ve tried."