I don't think Zuse had AI in mind at the time. The planning would have to be done by the programmer. This also fits in better with the fact he invented (or at

I don't think Zuse had AI in mind at the time. The planning would have to be done by the programmer. This also fits in better with the fact he invented (or at least envisioned) a "Planfertigungsgerät" (plan preparation device) to convert the "Plan" from human-readable notation into something the computer could run (effectively, a compiler).