You know the Charles Babbage story, where someone asks if you put the wrong inputs into the machine if it’ll still return the right answer, and he responds with “I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question”?

I’m starting to understand the question. If I ask a midlevel engineer to do something, and I’m not completely precise, or if I’m wrong about one of the ten edge cases, they’ll probably figure it out and come back with a correct result despite my error. It’s only when talking to a machine that absolute precision is needed, and if someone isn’t used to machines there’s sometimes a tendency to forget all the ways in which they are less capable than a human.