People (and programmers) have many false beliefs. Combine this with a strong desire to automate things and reduce recourse to properly trained humans and you end up with a particular form of tyranny - as we see here.

I'm surprised no one's linked to the below posts already.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...