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If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us.

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Yah, the at times almost universal male genital mutilation in the US goes back to religious nutjobs like Kellog & co to stop boys from masturbating. It’s also what motivated Kellog, in his quest for the blandest food, to invent cornflakes, because, apparently, spicy foods make you naughty. Good Glob, I wish I was kidding.

A distinction necessitated by marketing abusing it and watering it down beyond usefulness. Rinse and repeat and we’ll be talking about SAAGAITSRI (super advanced actual general artificial intelligence that shows real intelligence) in 10 to 20 years.

Yah, right, and Hitler was a communist. /s

I’ve no time/energy to deal with that level of trolling right now.

Let’s go ahead and call Trump’s politics “liberal justice”. It’s all just meaningless words that we can associate with whatever we want. That’s more along the lines of how “AI” is used in marketing.

No. That’s another bullshit marketing term people came up with when confronted with the fact that their “AI” contains no I.

Nothing in existence that has been labeled AI is AI. If AI (actual meaning of the words) exists, it’s in some secret facility and we don’t know about it. AI outside of fiction is a meaningless marketing term. That was already the case before LLMs and stable diffusion.

An example would be a REST API with a few endpoints where the database operations are handled directly in the route handlers uniquely for that specific task.

That’s a prime example for untestable code (not testable with unit tests/without IO). That might be fine for a tiny experiment, but I’d advise against it for projects of any size, even private ones. Always use a model like MVC, MVVM, three layers (data, business, user) …

I feel like we should have an in depth talk to better understand the problems you’re facing and the line of thinking that motivates your initial request. Unfortunately I currently do not have the time for that. The best I can do now, with the best of intentions, is to advise you to read literature about software development. The trouble is, that I’m not sure what to suggest, because I think there’s nothing that fits your premise. Maybe read about library development/reusable code so you better understand what not to make reusable by comparison? So maybe “Reusable Software: The Base Object-oriented Component Libraries” by Bertrand Myer or “Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models” by Martin Fowler. Though, both books are more on the old-fashioned side and I wouldn’t recommend them if you’re not an avid reader and (former) student of computer science.

Before I jump to “that’s a really bad idea” with my 20+ years of experience: why?

I mean, sure, don’t implement functionality you don’t need, but making code not reusable intentionally? Why?