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Your AI Assistant Just Recommended a Package That Doesn't Exist

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Go ahead, ask your favorite AI coding assistant for a package recommendation. There's a ~1 in 5 chance it just made one up. That's not a joke stat. Researchers at USENIX Security 2025 ran 2 million code generations across 16 LLMs and found a 19.7% hallucination rate for recommended packages. And he…

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  1. 2026-08-26 07:39 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI Assistant Just Recommended a Package That Doesn't Exist

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