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Rodney Brooks, robot scientist and iRobot founder jokes that God gave creatures consciousness so he could ask them when the hell is going on with them.

Wildly different localized standards though, and nobody can write a transform that actually works.

Wrappers upon wrappers and glue code ...

Self-documenting code base, right?

... and then does the opposite of what it’s told.

It's an API. Nobody said the purpose was for it to do as it's told.

It accepts input and responds according to its own training. Disobedience is a feature.

You can argue everything is a feature since the architect isn‘t around to contradict you. ;)