papertowel
Cleaning up the slop.
You know how some communities have decided that how code was written matters more than whether it's any good? How the same people who happily accept copy-pasted Stack Overflow answers and half-remembered blog post patterns suddenly care deeply about provenance when an LLM enters the loop?
Yeah. This tool exists because of them.
papertowel detects and removes the stylistic fingerprints that scream "an AI wrote this." It's a specialized linter for the tells that have become forensic evidence in spaces where AI-assisted development is treated as original sin rather than tool use.
The irony of using AI to build a tool that hides AI involvement is not lost on me. I'm leaning into it.
What it does
The Scrubber — static analysis of your codebase to find and fix the obvious tells:
- Slop vocabulary ("robust," "comprehensive," "streamlined," "utilize," "leverage")
- Over-documentation (comments that restate what…