We opened 1,332 AI-built repositories. Five of their dependencies do not exist, and anyone can register them.
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Most of what is written about slopsquatting measures the model: ask it for code, count how often it names a package that does not exist. We wanted the other end of the pipeline. Of the code people actually built with AI tools and published, how much still depends on a package that is not there? A d…
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- 2026-10-08 11:38 · DEV Community — AI
We opened 1,332 AI-built repositories. Five of their dependencies do not exist, and anyone can register them.