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Stop installing so many npm packages. Build what you need with AI.

You don’t need a package for everything. With AI, you can build your own. (Not just for JavaScript developers.)

Justice Ekemezie

3 min read1 hour ago

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Press enter or click to view image in full size Before and after dependencies. Photo by GPT 6.1 Sol.

You need to stop installing so many package dependencies. No, just stop .

Even before AI got this good, it was never a good idea for the first thing you reach for to be a package: an npm module, a Composer package, some dependency you need to install.

People do it even when the framework already has the native feature they need.

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