AI’s brave new world of technical debt (opens in new tab)

Mitchell Hashimoto , which, from a historical context, is certifiably insane. In fact, in the wake of , it still may sound insane. Yet after the spring npm just had, Hashimoto’s counsel may actually sound less like heresy and more like control. His rule? Fork your dependencies, trim them to what you actually use, and don’t update unless something breaks for your users. In Hashimoto’s view, you don’t update just because GitHub’s Dependabot opened a pull request or even because there’s a newer ...