Comment by aeblyve

The reason is oftentimes fairly simple, certain people have their material wealth and income threatened by such automation, and therefore it's bad (an intellectualized reason is created post-hoc)

I predict there will actually be a lot of work to be done on the "software engineering" side w.r.t. improving reliability and safety as you allude to, for handing off to less than sentient bots. Improved snapshot, commit, undo, quorum, functionalities, this sort of thing.

The idea that the AI should step into our programs without changing the programs whatsoever around the AI is a horseless carriage.