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Catching LLMs in a lie: packages that don't exist
Community description: Ask a language model which library to use and it answers with a list of names. Most are real. Some...
Dev.to | Sep 30, 2026 | jj1423
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Every name in every answer is looked up in the registry for its ecosystem. A name the registry has never heard of becomes a finding. The registries answer anyone: curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://registry. npmjs. org/fast-jsonwebtoken curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://pypi. org/pypi/pyyaml-safe/json curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://proxy. golang. org/github. com/rbretecher/openapi-parser/@v/list Each printed 404 on September 29, 2026.
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