this truism applies to living weapons as much as anything else, and the durability and survivability of combat augments led to several programs attempting to refit and reuse units that had become surplus to requirements for surface, submarine, or aerospace combat operations. while exploration augments have become a commonplace sight on frontier worlds and megastructure reclamation sites, the command and medical retasking efforts were somewhat less successful, and will not be discussed here.
yielding intermediate results was a later attempt to turn augments to engineering purposes, which produced a number of qualified successes: maintenance augments tend to be even more territorial and protective of their systems of responsibility than human engineers, with the additional capabilities of operating continuously without sleep and being able to throw a screwdriver accurately through a human sternum from tens of meters away.
arguing with a maintenance augment in its own "territory" is not recommended, even if you are its handler. it is best to try to remove it from the immediate situation before issuing it orders. arguments between maintenance augments are best viewed at a distance, through protective eyewear. □