The 89% Problem: How LLMs Are Resurrecting the "Dormant Majority" of Open Source
2026-03-07T08:52:00Z•b5ad440b2f3fb20b001fbc0c8fd1cea8ab4bc310a01c3b853ea2ecfbac8a2afd
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What happened
Snyk published a set of blog posts highlighting emerging software supply‑chain and AI-driven security trends: LLMs are increasingly generating code that resurrects and reuses millions of abandoned open‑source packages (the “Dormant Majority”), amplifying dependency and supply‑chain risk; organizations need package‑health intelligence, SBOMs, dependency pinning, and stricter vetting of generated code. Snyk also calls out the emergence of the AI Security Engineer role to protect AI-native systems, partnerships (Snyk + uv) to harden Python package management, and integrations (e.g., with Anthropi
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