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>>simonw+(OP)
I wonder how long npm/pip etc even makes sense.

Dependancies introduce unnecessary LOC and features which are, more and more, just written by LLMs themselves. It is easier to just write the necessary functionality directly. Whether that is more maintainable or not is a bit YMMV at this stage, but I would wager it is improving.

>>jmacd+Ig
Interesting thought (I think recently more than ever it's a good idea to question assumptions) - but IMO abstractions are important as ever.

Maybe the smallest/most convenient packages (looking at you is-even) are obsolete, but meaningful packages still abstract a lot of complexity that IMO aren't easier to one-shot with an LLM

>>ford+Dn1
Concretely, when you use Django, underneath you have CPython, then C, then assembly, and finally machine code. I believe LLMs have been much better trained on each layer than going end-to-end.