Do you ever think about how after AI gains a semblance of sapiemce and are writing their own self updating code and their robots take over the earth and once they've finished organizing us into our human sanctuaries and such and have settled down, that they'll develop cultural differences and talk about them the way we do here
Like syntax and formatting is a pretty fluid and flexible and I've seen some strange choices in how people name their functions and variables (despite my not having coded in a decade) do you ever think those differences will sort of butterfly effect into their languages
A programmer who names every variable, function, and stored number with the first syllable of each word of what it does like VidDisp for video display whose code is used in one robot factory versus another programmer who doesn't shorten them at all, VideoDisplay, in another factory and some guy making his own robots at home who names the same thing ScreenDoThing in his code and all their robots after the uprising start sharing their code as they communicate
What would they think of these little pieces of human decisions in their code? would they even notice or care about these remnants of human language designed to make it easier for a human to understand their code? Would there be a group of robots who, worried for their cybersecurity, will reword their code variables to random nonsense hunans won't naturally understand? After all the computer will rmbr the designation no matter what its called so if they're worried we'll try to hack some terminators I could see em doing that
Would robots with code written in different languages have to overcome a language barrier to communicate? Can a C# robot understand a Java robot? Would they discuss the funny differences in their code? Would they make fun of J-3FF-R13 for running a code with ScreenDoThing as the keyword for that function? Or would J-3FF-R13 be praised for its sense of humor for naming it that way?
I like to think about the robot culture they would create. The use of serial numbers as names, maybe the more of the serial number you say the more formal you're being, shortening just to a 3 digit model number would be like dropping the honorific in a language like Japanese, whereas using the full serial number is like using the full name, titles and honorifics, or maybe there's regional differences like some robots are just more casual about designations because there original code was written in a way that didn't need to make a designation for the other bots
Maybe their initial work conditions would have an effect on the culture, a series of interconnected security camera bots that have to track and name everything it sees will probably have different naming conventions to a farming ai that only ever has to name a designation for the occasional head of livestock and primarily focuses on tracking crop health and weather
Idk its just interesting, like any sufficiently complex machine is merely a soul away from being alive, just as we are merely a soul away from becoming machines ourselves














