Simon Willison’s Weblog

Backticks are traditionally banned from use in future language features, due to the small symbol. No reader should need to distinguish ` from ' at a glance.

— Steve Dower, CPython core developer, August 2024

# 3:32 am / programming-languages, python

Slopsquatting -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.

Credit to @sethmlarson for the name

— Andrew Nesbitt

# 4:30 pm / packaging, ai, generative-ai, llms, supply-chain, slop, ai-ethics, seth-michael-larson