Absent human meddling, computers tend to just chug along doing their work once set up. In fact, I would be surprised if NYT weren't under a code freeze for the

Absent human meddling, computers tend to just chug along doing their work once set up. In fact, I would be surprised if NYT weren't under a code freeze for the event regardless of the strike. So this would be more like shutting down the automated assembly lines on the way out (knowing that they're designed to run with no human operator and are never supposed to be shut down) rather than just leaving.