I’ve been in the industry since 1982. Silicon Valley during the 90’s. Taught and consulted in 26 countries, including for HP and Intel. And the first time I hea

I’ve been in the industry since 1982. Silicon Valley during the 90’s. Taught and consulted in 26 countries, including for HP and Intel. And the first time I heard compute used as a noun was when ChatGPT came out. Calling a program “a code,” as in “I wrote a code for that.” Is common use at Los Alamos and Scandia labs, which I discovered when I taught there. So I have encountered some linguistic oddities in my career. Maybe “compute” has been thriving in the AI world and I haven’t been there to notice?