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hard-code

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[hahrd-kohd] / ˌhɑrdˈkoʊd /

verb (used with object)

hard-coded, hard-coding

  1. to write (values, settings, or other data) into a program's source code, so that a user could not change it without modifying the source code.

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Other forms of artificial intelligence try to hard-code information about the world: the chess strategies of grandmasters, the principles of climatology.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

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