The 89% Problem: How LLMs Are Resurrecting the "Dormant Majority" of Open Source

A set of Snyk blog posts highlighting how generative AI is changing software supply‑chain and application security: LLMs are reviving large numbers of abandoned open‑source packages (the “Dormant Majority”), creating new package‑health and dependency risks; a new AI Security Engineer role is emerging to protect AI‑native systems; Snyk is partnering with uv for Python package management and integrating with AI tools (e.g., Anthropic’s Claude Code Security) to close the discovery→remediation loop; and community CTF write‑ups show practical offensive/defensive techniques. Overall the content maps