The Psychotic Network FerretSome AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.
Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!
Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.
This is absolutely a subtoot.
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@nuintari The irony is that this is a tool all the vibe coding harnesses use (including ripgrep).
I do wonder though if we've gone wrong somewhere on the "make this accessible and discoverable" side or if it really is almost exclusively a problem of willful ignorance.
spinnyspinlock@larsmb - I was not referencing a tool "everybody uses", it was posted yesterday. Somebody boosted it into my timeline, and they were mocked so much for boosting it, that they deleted the retoot as far as I can tell.
@spinnyspinlock - you've been warned, it is some truly awful python code.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/5/scan-for-secrets-3/
It's basically grep -f file-of-strings-to-find-including-common-encodings