Catching LLMs in a lie: packages that don't exist
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Ask a language model which library to use and it answers with a list of names. Most are real. Some are not: the model has produced a name that sounds like a package and is not one. If someone registers that name first, the next developer — or the next coding agent — who follows the same suggestion…
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- 2026-09-30 00:15 · DEV Community — AI
Catching LLMs in a lie: packages that don't exist