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PSA: your AI coding assistant might be suggesting fake packages with malware

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Been more careful lately after reading that AI models hallucinate package names a lot more than I expected, and some of those fake names are already being squatted with malicious code. Do you guys manually check every dependency an AI suggests, or is there a better way to catch this before it ends…

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  1. 2026-09-11 12:45 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    PSA: your AI coding assistant might be suggesting fake packages with malware

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