For example, one of the things that computers do a lot in cloud "control planes" is placement optimization. I've got this compute job, or data, or packet, where

For example, one of the things that computers do a lot in cloud "control planes" is placement optimization. I've got this compute job, or data, or packet, where should I put it? Computers can solve these kinds of problems much faster than humans, and much better when the dimensionality goes up. If things aren't looking as rosy as usual, is it because the workload has shifted to being harder to pack, or because something's gone wrong with the automation. These problems, with humans operating numerical optimization processes, are only going to get harder and more relevant as ML techniques become more ubiquitous. At least we need to be prepared for some very tricky post-hoc analysis of computer decisions. Years of work to understand a millisecond of decisions might not be unusual.