When AI can write more code than a human lifetime, do dependencies still make sense?
bendee983 · x · 2026-11-13
Dependencies have historically been liabilities—supply chain attacks and unpatched exploits. With AI now writing more code than a human would in a lifetime, could we build everything in-house and drop external dependencies?
- Going dependency-free shrinks the attack surface and keeps everything internal.
- But open source gets public scrutiny, and AI models can now analyze public codebases to find vulnerabilities—maybe external libraries will become more reliable.
The author leaves it as an open question for the AI coding era.
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