That just makes the NY Times sound clueless. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it does. Then again, I seem to recall some observation about the evolution of language

That just makes the NY Times sound clueless. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it does. Then again, I seem to recall some observation about the evolution of language where the less-used irregular words change more frequently, and 'source code' is not something people outside of technology discuss. But that's probably why the usage, which makes them seem like outsiders, sounds bad to me.