You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
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Blind dependency updates have quietly become one of the biggest security vectors in modern software, and AI-driven coding agents are accelerating the problem by eliminating the last human review guardrails. The author argues that Dependabot-style auto-merging is now actively harmful, and introduces Mendral, an AI-powered CI agent that treats every dependency update as an untrusted code contribution — sandboxing, diffing, and evaluating each one before approval.
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