http://www.wfcoding.com/en/tags/i18n/ Recent content in I18n on Interesting AI Hugo -- 0.164.0 en-US 火云 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wfcoding.com/en/articles/design/0114/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wfcoding.com/en/articles/design/0114/ <p>AI (Artificial Intelligence) has a very common problem when writing code:</p> <p><strong>It loves to &ldquo;hardcode things on a whim.&rdquo;</strong></p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">timeout</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">30</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">max_retries</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">3</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">model</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;qwen3:14b&#34;</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">ValueError</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&#34;User does not exist&#34;</span><span class="p">)</span> </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Individually, there&rsquo;s nothing fundamentally wrong with any of these lines.</p> <p>But when dozens of modules each have their own <code>30</code>, <code>3</code>, model names, and prompt text, maintainers start getting headaches:</p> <p><strong>What do these values mean? Where should they be changed? What happens when switching environments? How do we support English?</strong></p> <p>Therefore, AI programming projects should establish a clear architectural rule upfront:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Values with business significance, environment-specific differences, or user-visible meaning are not allowed to be scattered across business code.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>This problem is primarily addressed through two mechanisms:</p> <p><strong>Centralized Configuration + I18n (Internationalization).</strong></p> <hr>