I think you’re probably right about people’s feelings regarding buggy software. But for self-reflection, it’s different.
In a slogan: agency is self-fulfilling prophecy. What gives us the feeling of agency is the (usually correct) thought that affirming any of a range of thoughts about our own action, would be self-fulfilling. Jenann Ismael -pdf- has a good discussion.
I think you’re probably right about people’s feelings regarding buggy software. But for self-reflection, it’s different.
In a slogan: agency is self-fulfilling prophecy. What gives us the feeling of agency is the (usually correct) thought that affirming any of a range of thoughts about our own action, would be self-fulfilling. Jenann Ismael -pdf- has a good discussion.