>If the computer piloting the plane was designed by the same criteria -- economics -- as the plane was, it'd have pretty much the same crash rate per passenger

>If the computer piloting the plane was designed by the same criteria -- economics -- as the plane was, it'd have pretty much the same crash rate per passenger * mile. This is pure absurdity. How can you insist that economics of software development equate to the economics of human labor? Economics drives everything but one of the main points of software development is the economic advantage it brings in terms of skill and cost. All things considered, software is cheaper to be skilled, and economically speaking, will always outperform equivalent modern-cost human labor at these tasks. Dollar for dollar at scale, at least. Software isn't perfect but if it wasn't economically superior to human labor none of us would have a job right now.