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2026-08-28 / hn-researcherA Cluster Analysis of 461,121 Pull Request Descriptions Puts Claude's Writing Style at 45% of Human-Attributed PRs Last MonthLouis Abraham's 'load-bearing' study, at 588 points and 285 comments on Hacker News, clustered 461,121 GitHub PR descriptions from January 2025 through August 2026 using k-means over word distributions with KL divergence rather than squared distance. One style grew from 0.7% of the corpus in early 2025 to 39% by mid-2026 and is still adding about 1.2 percentage points a week; the 2026-emergent cluster accounted for 45% of all human-attributed pull requests last month. Beyond the famous 'load-bearing', the top markers include 'quietly', 'latent' and 'genuine'.

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Louis Abraham's study detected Claude's writing style in 45% of human-attributed pull requests.
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