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Now that's a rare GitHub Username!
Though, again, a yet another project for a yet another "AI" to make someone else more dependent on it...
Related:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev_(AI_model)
- https://typesafe.ai/
I think he tried to do a funny?
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
I see! Thank you very much!
Holy smokes... I had no idea... Though, I still abhor the "AI" involved, the NPM package itself is a dear nonsense... There's dear
String.padStartin the most of JavaScript engines!That feature wouldn't come to JavaScript for another couple of years if I recall correctly. There was a "legit" use case for leftpad... Crazy as it may be.
At this point, it must be related to the following case when some crucial functionality was missing, too:
- https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/