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Our slopsquatting detector had three ways to say "safe". None of them needed evidence.

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Ask a language model which package to use and, now and then, it names one that does not exist. If someone registers that name first, the next developer — or the next coding agent — who follows the same suggestion installs whatever they put there. That is slopsquatting. We collect those names and sc…

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  1. 2026-10-02 03:57 · DEV Community — AI
    Our slopsquatting detector had three ways to say "safe". None of them needed evidence.

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