Literally the first sentence threw up red flags for me:
> Something happened to recorded music over the last twenty-five years that most people can hear, and feel, but almost nobody has the language for.
That is 100% Claude
"we like music in the abstract as a series of numbers" seemed like a nod to AI or quantization general. Now, it might have just been genuine instead of an ironic statement. Also explains an unreadable-to-humans giant table in the middle of the article.
The comma after "hear" reads as non-LLM to me
Also, an existing creative who understood and knew the topic would just call it what the rest of the industry calls it; quantization and autotune, not "gridification", that's some term they've seemingly made up together with Claude, and it sure sounds like it.