The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

We scrape 1,000 GitHub Pull Requests daily to analyse trends in vocabulary.
So far we have analysed:

602days
467,387pull requests
52,506,137words

We grouped GitHub PRs since 2025 into 10 clusters of vocabulary using KL-divergence k-means.

One of the clusters appeared in 2026 and represented 40% of all human-attributed pull requests last month.

Its most representative words should look familiar to anyone who uses coding agents.

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2025-01-0620262026-08-24
plainly 34.26× more frequent in this cluster

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54 per million, at the peak7 per million words across the whole corpus
2025-01-0620262026-08-24
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