hard-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

Should you “hard-code” the font color of a website as dark gray in three places, meaning you’ll basically be locked into the shade, or should you make it a variable in case someone is going to ask you to change it later?

From Slate

It could theoretically make your Wi-Fi work better, but you’re just as likely to run into some weird interoperability issue as your black-market router settings run into manufacturers like Apple that hard-code US-bound products not to work on channels 13 or higher.

From The Verge

As the automation of driving advances, there’s a way to “hard-code” that decision into vehicles.

From Slate

Some occurrences of Diffie-Hellman literally hard-code the prime in, making it difficult to change overnight.

From The Guardian