A Dangerously Comfortable Copilot
Cato would have smiled hearing about the recently observed effect in aeronautics that the automation of airplanes is underchallenging pilots, making flying too comfortable for them, dangerously comfortable. The dulling of the pilot’s attention and skills from too little challenge is indeed causing deaths from flying accidents. Part of the problem is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation that forced the industry to increase its reliance on automated flying (Taleb 43).
Not to compare software engineering with aeronautics, but if you spend more than an hour using AI to code, you’ll discover there’s a very real dulling of attention and skills that comes from this kind of bordem.