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Claudeisms: A list of words Claude Code overuses
Developer Archie Wood analyzed his local Claude Code chat transcripts from Opus 4.7 and 4.8 sessions to identify the model's most overused words.
Key takeaways
- Claude Code overuses specific words at an extremely high frequency compared to humans writing about code.
- The word 'load-bearing' is used over 7,500 times more frequently by Claude than in Stack Overflow comments.
- The overuse of 'load-bearing' is driven by Claude Code's system prompt instructing it to report load-bearing findings.
Developer Archie Wood analyzed his local Claude Code chat transcripts from Opus 4.7 and 4.8 sessions to identify the model's most overused words. By comparing Claude's outputs against a dataset of Stack Overflow comments, the analysis revealed that Claude overuses words like "load-bearing" (over 7,500x more than humans), "gating" (762x), and "dedup" (649x). The overuse of "load-bearing" is likely influenced by Claude Code's system prompt, which instructs the model to "give brief updates when you find something load-bearing."
By the numbers
- 175
- Claude Code chat transcript files analyzed
- 140MB
- Size of the analyzed chat transcript dataset
- 1.72B
- Words in Stack Overflow comments dataset used for comparison
- >7,500x
- Frequency ratio of the word load-bearing in Claude Code vs Stack Overflow
- 762x
- Frequency ratio of the word gating in Claude Code vs Stack Overflow
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Common questions
- What happened with Claude Code?
- Claude Code overuses specific words at an extremely high frequency compared to humans writing about code.
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at hacker_news.
