> It's the poor use, the lack of transparency and the lack of oversight. And the fact as (many of us are) programmers we know just how buggy, generally unrelia

> It's the poor use, the lack of transparency and the lack of oversight. And the fact as (many of us are) programmers we know just how buggy, generally unreliable and flaky software can be. Much like my instinctive recoil from IoT - "You want to put lowest cost manufactured network devices that have access to tonnes of personal data on my internal network and connect them to the internet..!", I find this trend deeply worrying, people who aren't techies tend to put undue weight on computer systems that usually give the correct results but can fail in subtle and not subtle ways with "Well it worked last time". I've had people tell me "Well that's not what the computer says" when I absolutely knew that what the computer says is wrong, most recently that I'd submitted electricity meter readings (I had a screenshot of both the submission and the corresponding "Your meter reading was recieved" success message, not my first rodeo..). To quote Jurassic Park "You where so busy figuring out if you could no one stopped to consider if they should".