I built a linter that removes AI fingerprints...

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 some