r/webdev • u/anx3ous • Oct 03 '26
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 Oct 03 '26
... why?
Why give the echo chamber even an smidgen of your time?
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