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AST Node Traversal vs Dumb Regex for Vulnerability Scanning

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AST Node Traversal vs Dumb Regex for Vulnerability Scanning Regex-based code scanners are notoriously noisy. They spam false positives because they can't understand code context. I built Sentinal to fix this. In Sentinal, I moved beyond simple regex patterns. Instead, I parse the Abstract Syntax Tr…

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  1. 2026-09-21 22:02 · DEV Community — AI
    AST Node Traversal vs Dumb Regex for Vulnerability Scanning

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