Assemblers of Infinity

i was ernestly trying to enjoy this book and i even thought i was succeeding despite many little questions... right up to this part where the protagonist "scientist" girl goes "i've scrambled them with high-energy particles. maybe that'll knock out some of their old programming and leave them open to suggestions. i'm trying to teach them a different type of behaviour". it would not be so funny were it not about nanoscale robots that she spoke. ROBOTS for god's sake! dear author, try bombarding your iphone with hard-energy particles to maybe knock out some of its old programming, heh? you know, just to teach it some different applications? omfg, don't get me wrong, i love sci-fi of almost any sort, i'm open for almost any fantasy because it's just part of the genre, and kids trying to domesticate an alien robot is not an unheard-of theme here, but a scientist? in the domain of nanotechnology? without knowledge of programming? trying to "domesticate" nanomachines (or to do a selective breeding on them as another protagonist did in the same book) — isn't that just a little bit too much to accept?! in the end i'm disappointed by how the author killed the plot and turned the story into something so bland =/