The fate of "small" open source

  Given that some 80% of developers are now using AI in their regular work, blob-util is almost certainly the kind of thing that most developers would just happily have an LLM generate for them. Sure, you could use blob-util, but then you’d be taking on an extra dependency, with unknown performance, maintenance, and supply-chain risks.

Letting LLM write utility code is a sword that cuts both ways. You often create a throw-away code that is unproven and requires maintenance. It's not a guarantee that the blobutil or toString or whatever created by AI won't fail at some edge cases. That's why e.g. in Java there is Apache commons which is perceived as an industry standard nowadays.