[kianN]

Unrelated: I initially expected this articles to be referring to public libraries. I think that would be a challenging connection to prove despite it making intuitive sense.

On the article: some use cases eg handling dates, fault tolerant queues have so many edge cases and are so mission critical that relying on a battle tested tool makes a lot of sense.

However, in my career I’ve seen a lot of examples of a package being installed to avoid 40-50 lines of well thought out code and now a dependency is forever embedded in the system.

I think there is a catch with replacing libraries with LLM generated code. Part of the benefit of skipping third party libraries is the domain knowledge that gets built up: this is potentially lost with llm generated code.

[krackers]

I thought this was about physical libraries as well. Maybe the link is librarians, supposedly if you didn't even know where to begin searching a trained librarian would have been a good person to ask.