The 89% Problem: How LLMs Are Resurrecting the "Dormant Majority" of Open Source
2026-03-14T20:52:00Z•412605cbaa8b04fad67c65f0cdcba4bd718807c3700bc015ab15215e9d9f72b3
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What happened
Collection of Snyk blog posts (Feb–Mar 2026) covering AI-driven impacts on software supply chains and developer security: how LLM coding assistants are resurfacing millions of abandoned open‑source packages (the “Dormant Majority”) and increasing package health and supply‑chain risk; the emergence of the AI Security Engineer role to protect AI‑native systems; Snyk’s partnership with the uv ecosystem to bring native security to Python package management; CTF write‑ups highlighting web/AI/crypto exploit techniques; and Anthropic’s Claude Code Security integration with Snyk to close the discovery
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- 412605cbaa8b04fad67c65f0cdcba4bd718807c3700bc015ab15215e9d9f72b3
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- 2026-03-14T20:52:00Z
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- Yes
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