# How LLMs Make Human Effort Harder to Recognize Online

DevFeed: [How LLMs Make Human Effort Harder to Recognize Online](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/legibility-of-effort-40768.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort>)

Author: Nolen Royalty (eieiogames@gmail.com)

Published: 2026-06-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [eieio.games](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eieio-games.md>)

Topics: [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>)

## AI overview

LLMs make it easier to produce plausible text, websites, and contributions, weakening effort as a signal of quality or care. The author argues that this makes worthwhile work harder to identify and complicates open-source contribution review.

## Source excerpt

LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?