Opinion: GitHub and AI Labs Should Own Scanning and Remediation of Abandoned Widely-Used Libraries
JiliJeanlouis · x · 2026-10-21
A developer argues on X that GitHub, alongside AI labs, has a responsibility to proactively work on scanning and remediation of open-source dependencies — potentially even forcing releases for dead, unmaintained libraries that are still widely used by the community, as a supply-chain security measure.
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