Dependency Tracking Is Hard

Posted by riffraff 11 hours ago

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Comment by rurban 3 hours ago

It not hard since opus or gpt-5.4 anymore. I check most of my Makefiles with them to update wrong deps.

Comment by dhruv3006 7 hours ago

GitHub lists one dependent repo for curl and that too is a mistake.

Comment by nacozarina 7 hours ago

it’s cache-invalidation in different clothes, it will always be a pain in the tucus

Comment by direwolf20 8 hours ago

Dependency tracking for security is like any other security work: the purpose is to create the perception of security, not actual security. You can sell the perception of security. You can't sell actual security. That's why every other corporation has a WAF now that doesn't block attacks but does block legitimate traffic, and how Cloudflare managed to create the world's biggest MITM without a single crime.