The self-driven car needs someone to tell it where to drive. The self-programmable program needs someone to tell it what to program. (We already have these, the

The self-driven car needs someone to tell it where to drive. The self-programmable program needs someone to tell it what to program. (We already have these, they are called compilers, and they are getting better all the time.) The question is: is deciding where to drive as hard as deciding what to program?