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by flohofwoe 19 days ago
> modular components with explicit conformance requirements would allow people to not care what happens inside the black box

That's the whole idea of software libraries, no AI needed for that ;)

It just takes some disciplines and not listening to the DRY crowd too much to create actually self-contained libraries.

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Libraries rypicly have an interface of function calls.

That is different from an interface of set of polled values with a few signals.

Any library that can write to memory through provided pointers, or can return non primitive data has a potentially unlimited interface.

that mangled word is 'typically' btw.

but while I'm here I should point out I wasn't thinking you need AI for this. I was thinking maybe you need this for AI. As a testable way to insulate yourself from AI overreach.