I built a linter that removes AI fingerprints from code

Some communities have decided that how code was written matters more than whether it works. Not all communities. dev.to isn't one of them, and honestly that's part of why I'm posting here. But if you've spent time on certain forums, subreddits, or open source projects, you've seen the pattern: a review that ignores the actual code and goes straight to "this looks AI-generated." A thread about contribution quality that's really about provenance. A project that rejects a working patch because someone ran it through a detector. The failure mode isn't "a robot touched it." It's "the human didn't understand or verify what they shipped." Those aren't the same thing, and conflating them has made some corners of the dev community genuinely hostile to LLM-assisted work regardless of quality. So I built a tool. greysquirr3l / papertowel AI code fingerprint scrubber and git history humanizer papertowel Cleaning up the slop. You know how some communities have decided that how code was written matt