The Lisp curse is coming to your ecosystem, thanks to LLMs

The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem

The Lisp curse describes how Lisp's flexibility encourages developers to build custom solutions in isolation, leading to fewer shared libraries. The author argues LLM-assisted coding could bring this curse to mainstream ecosystems like Java: if generating code becomes easier than learning existing APIs, developers will stop using open source libraries, feedback to maintainers will dwindle, and new library creation will stagnate. He doesn't buy the premise that we can skip libraries entirely, but expects this scenario to arrive by accident, making software development lonelier.