Load-Bearing - Vocabulary trend analysis of Claude coding agents

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

Load-Bearing is a data-driven tool that analyzes vocabulary trends in GitHub pull requests to reveal the distinctive language of AI coding agents like Claude. By clustering over 47,000 PRs into 8 vocabulary clusters, it identifies a dominant cluster representing 45% of human-attributed PRs, characterized by words like 'load-bearing' and 'seamlessly'. This tool offers unique insights into how AI influences coding communication, making it valuable for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts.

We scraped 100 GitHub PRs daily to uncover the load-bearing vocabulary of Claude, revealing a new linguistic fingerprint in coding.

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2026-08-27