I Tested 3 AI Coding Tools for Slopsquatting. Here's How Many Fake Packages They Invented.
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It's 2 a.m. and I'm not hacking anything. I'm watching a list. The list is made of package names that don't exist, recommended to thousands of developers by an assistant that sounds very sure of itself. All I have to do is register one of them and wait. I don't need a zero-day. I don't need to phis…
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- 2026-10-06 20:58 · DEV Community — AI
I Tested 3 AI Coding Tools for Slopsquatting. Here's How Many Fake Packages They Invented.