Having flown modern jets and the old clockwork wonders for many years I have had to on occasion think outside the box and not follow SOPs. Computers follow SOPs and thats not always great. Also even in todays marvels of computerised wizardry I have flown several flights where the computers have dropped out and systems have been lost.....we regularly get notifications from the manufacturers with changes to software and block points not to mention work arounds that the PILOTS have to implement until the software is fixed.
Who implements the work arounds when the pilots are gone? Does the computer see its wrong and correct? You would hope so but still even today we haven't got to that stage.