People keep saying this, but how realistic is that in reality? Even say a person is doing their best to do that, we all know that the alarm that doesn't trip 99% of the time isn't going to be closely monitored. Just look at what happens when people get used to "hands free" cruise control.

Not only that, but even if we assume best effort on the engineer, the business pressures don't often allow that. I'm under constant pressure to deliver more, faster with less people. The performance eval ladder at my company was just reworked to double the amount of deliverable features expected per job level per year. Our CEO told us we should be able to deliver what took us the past decade to deliver in a quarter, every quarter going forward.

How could you possibly have a human anywhere near that loop with those demands?