> People anthropomorphize computers in the same way, believing that computers are digital brains that somehow “choose” to do one thing or another based on the code they are fed. But learning a few things about how computers work, even at a rudimentary level, takes the homunculus out of the machine.
https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html

this is imho why I'm too fond of overly friendly UIs whose abstractions obscure what's going on. you should not assume that the computer can think for you.