We must return to this somewhat sprawling article by Fred Hébert blog 
Most applications and components you use that are easy to operate do not expose their internals to you, they mainly aim to provide visibility into your interactions with them.
When we accept and assume that Automation will reach its limits, and the thing that it does is ask a human for help, we shift our approach to automation. Make that hand-off path work easily. Make it friendly, and make it possible for the human to understand what the state of automation was at a given point in time so you can figure out what it was doing and how to work around it.