u/fairwaycoder

https://reddit.com/link/1vq8cyg/video/btfopmmbvsjh1/player

I built Augur, an open-source tool for seeing what is actually hidden inside a file.

It finds things like zero-width characters and hidden instructions, Trojan Source / bidi controls, mixed-script homoglyphs, EXIF and GPS metadata, C2PA manifests, and data appended after an image.

It can also write a cleaned copy without modifying the original or recompressing the image, then scans the result again to verify the selected stuff is actually gone.

Video shows the real thing - the demo files are generated by a script in the repo, including everything Augur then detects.

https://github.com/dejo1307/augur

Disclaimer: I am rarely, if ever, reaching any limits with Codex. Not here to complain about it.

However, since I don't have anything better to spend some tokens on, I did today, after I read tens of messages about reset, a simple test, where I used Codex to do three things in a simple single screen:
- Move one word from the title location (H1) to the subtitle (H2).
- After moved, align the font, style, font size, color, with already existing stuff.
- Add three more subtitles which would follow exactly the same style, font, font size, color, of other sections already existing on the same screen.

It took it 9 tries and 55% of my 5 hours limit. More then one hour where at least last 20 minutes went to quite some abuse and Codex trying to tell me how it doesn't like to be verbally abused.

In the end, I had to do it, prompt by prompt, line by line, explaining everything, sharing screenshots - stuff that I could do myself in less then 3 minutes. However, I wanted simply to test on something this simple am I just getting crazy myself or I ended up in some super wired AB test from which OpenAI is not letting me go out as it just can not be this bad, it never was.

Qwen3.6-27b did this in a single try.

Since I read Ben Hogan's Five Lessons I started writing my own journal. No specific structure, just trying to write down what worked, what didn't, where was I idiot again. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes I am not sure why I am playing golf still.

Anyone else doing this?