One problem is that programmers accept this stupidity from the machine rather than try to fix it. For example, if the computer had a definition of a good PBJ and some sort of solver, it might just figure out how to construct a PBJ with the given materials. Or maybe it would ask for clarification of some steps. Of course we don't want to treat all problems as general cases to be solved on the fly, but I don't think we should accept complete stupidity from the machine either.
Programmers don't accept it, which is why higher level languages exist. At some point it reaches 'good enough' and most of us settle with some language, but there are always others pushing out new languages to fix some shortcoming they see.
