hard-code
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
Another tool will let podcasters swap out sponsored segments in their videos, which as of now are often hard-coded into the video file and still remain online even after a sponsorship ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
So many choices that seem hard-coded into the show’s DNA are accidents or evolutions of choices totally out of our control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
Because Sierra Leone was run as a British colony until 1961, Cleverly said his mother's attitude to British institutions "and its rules came hard-coded when she arrived".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Unlike traditional computer programs that execute a series of hard-coded commands, language models are trained by sifting through large datasets of text like Wikipedia.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2022
He took a guess and printed out the last three to be run; the late messages were probably hard-coded in there somewhere.
From O+F by Wetterau, John Moncure
And now that Google Assistant is available on Wear OS 3, you don’t have to settle for Samsung hard-coding Bixby as your default smartwatch assistant.
From The Verge ● Aug. 19, 2022
One is hard-coding everything: working out exactly where and how the robot needs to move, and programming each step by hand.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2017
Plus, like hard-coding, it’s not very flexible when faced with unseen and surprising objects.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2017
Nowadays if you were a company like that, you would just never even consider hard-coding everything in English.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2015
On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2014
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