Supply Chains, Zombie OSS, and Agent Firewalls (opens in new tab)

This week feels like a full-stack reality check: Gergely Orosz reports that AI is amplifying team culture (good and bad), while Cloudflare shows frontier models already chaining exploits and reviewing attacks better with multi-agent setups. The ecosystem drama continues: SafeDep tracks 314 compromised npm packages, npm responds with staged publishing, and Andrew Nesbitt explains how open-source projects quietly become zombie dependencies. On the practical side, Julia Evans makes a strong case...