It's always been pretty common in programming discussions. Here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 that uses the term shape to describe an algorithm: https://www.m

It's always been pretty common in programming discussions. Here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 that uses the term shape to describe an algorithm: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/40-wasted-resources/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/40-wasted-resources/ And again in 2023, I use it twice in the same blog post both for data and code, and it definitely had no AI input: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/