I'm not seeing anything here that makes me think they had any kind of automation at all! In my experience, if they had automation things would have consistently failed on all servers the deployment was executed on.
That said, if you're going to fly the jet liner in full manual mode, you better make sure your co-pilot is watching the instruments.
That said, if you're going to fly the jet liner in full manual mode, you better make sure your co-pilot is watching the instruments.