A kilobyte is 1024B, except when it's 1000B. A word is 32-bits on a 32-bit arch, except x86. I thought programmers eschewed ambiguity!
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Apparently FizzBuzz is a spelling used by programmers, and it's "Fizz Buzz" in other contexts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
Perhaps programmers favour camel case more often?
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/
A study of programmers found that using a LLM for completion produced buggier code but users were more confident in it.
I wonder if this generalises to other completion techniques?
Shower thought: presumably keyword length affects naming habits? Are programmers more willing to write verboseFunctionName if the keyword is `fn` rather than `function`?