Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo.

Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.

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No I mean less need for third party libs because LLMs can generate a lot of library code directly and quickly.

LLMs produce code that pulls in a bunch of third party libraries because that's how most people code, even for simple things