The 89% Problem: How LLMs Are Resurrecting the "Dormant Majority" of Open Source
AI coding assistants are quietly resurrecting millions of abandoned open source packages. For the last decade, developers relied on a simple heuristic for open source security: Prevalence \= Trust. If a package was downloaded millions of times a week (lodash, react, requests), we assumed it was "safe enough" because thousands of eyes were on it. If it was obscure, we approached with caution.