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New hire I work with us someone I really like at an intellectual level.
But nearly every problem he encounters his approach is "just install an npm package, no need to reinvent the wheel"
and it's frustrating cause made he hasn't dealnwith major breaking changes in huge corpo projects or maybe he's just inexperienced.
even just recently axios has a supply chain attack and the npm package was compromised
our sr dev designed our current application to rely as little on 3rd party packages as possible, we use fetch to make http requests and there is 0 issues
his projects use axios because "it reduces some boilerplate" and aforementioned excuse
it's exhausting because he has really good ideas about project structure and design and architecture but he spams Claude prs and has some really strange takes here and there
Honestly, in this age where reproduction is cheap, external dependencies are a liability. Even if your slop coder writes in all of the same classes of bugs, your software is still bespoke. Attackers gotta focus on you specifically, not backdoor leftpad. The ROI sinks dramatically.