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by rlpb 100 days ago
Pinning dependencies by hash is completely undermined by automation that then updates the pins without meaningful review, as is common.
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I think that this is the issue then, not pulling dependencies from the internet directly.

> meaningful review No that I think about it, maybe for the first time in history it's actually feasible to review all the code in the repos using LLMs. Before LLMs were a thing, for any big project that would be way too much work to realistically do it.

Also, someone can provide code review of publicly available dependencies as a service, to avoid wasting tokens of reviewing same code again and again by each dev locally on their machine.

U wonder if anyone is already working on such service...

Most (all?) of the solutions offered are not providing a "code review service" but rather a "curated registry" one: download from us and we guarantee some things.

It's definitely more widely known/used for container images than individual software packages.