I Built an AI Text Detector from Scratch — Here's What I Learned About Doing It the Hard Way First

The Hard Way Before I shipped Aidetector, I spent two weeks doing AI detection...

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Developer built Aidetector, a client-side AI text detector using 12 heuristics; no backend, no signup, no word limits. Local processing eliminates data residency concerns; transparent scoring (vs black-box) supports compliance and content governance decisions.

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The Hard Way

Before I shipped Aidetector, I spent two weeks doing AI detection manually.

I'm not joking. A client asked me to review a batch of blog posts for AI-generated content, and I had no reliable free tool. So I did what any developer does when they're stubborn and slightly overconfident — I started reading papers.

I pulled research on AI writing patterns. I opened a spreadsheet. I flagged things like:

Sentence length variance (AI texts are suspiciously uniform)

I Built an AI Text Detector from Scratch — Here's What I Learned About Doing It the Hard Way First

I Built an AI Text Detector from Scratch — Here's What I Learned About Doing It the Hard Way First

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