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I think you just described scientists :P
Scientists don't work on mundane problems. AI need training to solve mundane tasks. Just take stackoverflow as the literal example. It's not science. We might need a new profession to produce training material for arbitrary areas of expertise, not limited to research level topics. A job like this might be talking about such topics on a searchable forum, for example. Each post can be evaluated by a separate AI system to assign score points to it. I don't know whether this sounds more dystopian or fun. It's definitely not that far from social credit systems.
As a computer science professor, you are giving us scientists way too much credit. Most articles we produce are basically just: hey, you can use this framework/use this strategy to solve this problem. There is a sad, or maybe not depending on your POV,, problem in computer science research that most research doesn't follow the scientific method.