LLM Smells: The Tells in AI Writing, and the Costlier Ones in AI Code (opens in new tab)

there is a piece by shrijal shrestha called "various llm smells" that put words to something i think a lot of us have been feeling but not naming. the argument is simple: ai-assisted work leaves a residue. once you have seen enough of it, you can spot it instantly, the same way you can hear autotune. he calls it ai-smell, and his point is that it shows up across very different tasks. writing has its tells. websites have their tells. and now that the tools are everywhere, the tells are everywh...