Slopsquatting: Emerging AI Software Supply Chain Risk

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Based on the linked author claim, one useful angle is how teams separate AI-assisted package discovery from package approval. A simple workflow comparison: in one setup, a coding assistant suggests package names directly in the build path; in another, suggestions are treated only as draft inputs and a human must match names against an internal allow-list, lockfile policy and maintainer review before anything is installed. The second approach adds friction, but hypothetically it reduces the chance that a plausible-sounding hallucinated package gets normalised into everyday work. It also makes incident review easier, because the human decision point is explicit rather than buried in a chat or generated script. Which lightweight check would people actually keep switched on: internal package allow-lists, stricter lockfile rules, or mandatory human review for any new dependency?