Your Agent Added a New Dependency to Solve What Your Standard Library Already Handled
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The agent finished fast and the PR looked clean. Green checks, a tidy diff, a passing build. Then you open package.json and there it is: a new runtime dependency you never asked for, pulled in to do three lines of work that something already on disk could have handled. This is one of the quietest f…
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Your Agent Added a New Dependency to Solve What Your Standard Library Already Handled