But the coders are sipping coffee!
A few processes happening in a batch utilizing electronics/mechanics/hydraulics can be of benefit, provided they happen under our watchful eye. I.e., we need to find out the limits to automation.
What is disturbing is reliance on software coding. Ultimately, software codes are human instructions by a proxy, stored in a computer memory. Many a times some of these codes are not executed. Hence the error in them never comes to light. Even if the pilots aren't sipping coffee after pressing a few buttons, the coders certainly are - no one can deny that to err is human. And coders are humans! They have no idea of the relevance, emphasis or importance of individual segments of code. Nor there is a way for them to test it. Blind reliance on software should be abandoned and every automated decision making system should be supervised. As to failure of components - the modern manufacturing scheme of distributed assembly with no quality control but only cost control is to blame!