The robots are replacing the packages
5 May 2026 via spatie.be
I wrote a piece on the Spatie blog about the place packages/library have in the ecosystem when first-party code is cheaper than ever with AI.
Scrolling to the end:
The question before every
composer requireis no longer “is there a package for this?” Almost certainly there is. The new question is: “do I want to own this problem?”
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