Are computer programmers essentially slave owners?

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The computer is their slave. It does exactly what they tell it to do. So in a sense, it seems that computer programmers own slaves.

Does this have a negative impact on the way they interact with people? Maybe they expect people to do as they are told?

Taking this further, what about robot programmers -- especially where the robots are quite lifelike?

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To people like you, computers are slaves. You click, type or tap something, and the computer does what it's told.

To programmers, computers are frustrating tools that don't always do what we want. You get error messages because programmers predefined them as they coded it in. Have you any idea the frustration that programmers get when something that should work, doesn't? To programmers computers are like quiet unhelpful children who don't understand when they've done something wrong, so you always have to spell it out and work things out for yourself without sufficient feedback.