ESP8266 doesn't see any APs

Not sure what's up now but I'm just getting gibberish:

>Uncaught No 'ready' after AT+RST
  at line 2 col 18
   if (err) throw err;

 in function "a" called from line 1 col 100
 ...a("No 'ready' after AT+RST");else return b}

in function "b" called from line 1 col 16
 {c=void 0;b&&b()}

 in function called from system
 Disconnected

I added a cap (47uf) to the pads on the shim and it is still the same. I don't understand why the change in behavior...