The PR That Thinks Like Claude

A cluster analysis of 461K GitHub pull request descriptions finds that one Claude-specific writing style — anchored by the phrase "load-bearing" — grew from 0.7% to 39% of the corpus between early 2025 and August 2026, at a rate of roughly 1.2 percentage points per week. The numbers are a clean empirical window into how model-specific language patterns spread through public code repositories and, eventually, into future training data.

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