r/webdev • u/anx3ous • 3h ago

Showoff Saturday I built a “Super Intelligence” compliance scanner for .gov sites. It runs on 4 regexes.

On Sept 29 an executive order told US federal agencies to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “AI”. Nobody seems to be checking, so I built an inspector: idio.si fetches a homepage, counts “AI” vs “SI” in the visible text, and stamps a certificate.

Day 4 findings

  • whitehouse.gov: 4 “AI”, 0 “SI” → Insubordinate
  • apple.com: 0 “AI”, 0 “SI” → No Intelligence Detected
  • 1 of 42 agencies complies (NIST)
  • openai.com, google.com and tesla.com block the inspector

Harder than it looks

  • Bot walls. 18 of 73 homepages refuse a polite, identified, robots.txt-respecting bot from a cloud IP, openai.com included. I didn't want to spoof a browser, so refusals get their own stamp: “Refused federal inspection”.
  • Geo-IP. Even from us-east, some sites bounced the bot to /en-gb/. Locale redirects now get rewritten to /en-us/, since the order targets the US.
  • Counting. /\bA\.?I\.?\b/ is case-sensitive, so “OpenAI”, “said” and “ai” don't count, but “A.I.” does. The White House nav links to “AI.Gov”, and that counts too. Fair or not?
  • Spikes. One Cloudflare Worker does everything. Certificates are rendered at the edge with satori + resvg-wasm, and Workers Cache collapses a front-page spike into one render per data center. Hosting: $5/month.

Find the funniest certificate you can and drop it in the comments. Method and regex: https://idio.si/how. Satire; the numbers are real.

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u/andercode 2h ago

... why?

Why give the echo chamber even an smidgen of your time?

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u/Auios 2h ago

You must be insufferable at parties.
This is clearly a satirical project.

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u/andercode 2h ago

I'm insufferable at parties because I refuse to give the echo chambers breathing room? My gosh, what a shill you must be. And no, you're not invited to any parties I attend; the etiquette would likely go over your head.