If you watch the Claude Code CLI while it's working, you'll notice the spinner doesn't just say "thinking." It cycles through words like noodling, percolating, wibbling, and sauteeing.
I've been staring at this thing for months. I'm guessing most people don't watch Claude think. I do. And at some point I realized someone at Anthropic hand-curated a taxonomy of 106 gerunds that have absolutely no business being this charming.
So I asked Claude to find the list. The source isn't in the open-source repo — that's docs, CI, and examples. The actual app ships as a compiled binary.