AI offering the solution for a small problem that probably doesn’t deserve yet another dependency suggests to me that there’s a middle ground that we’ve failed to sufficiently cover: how to socialize code snippets that you’re meant to just inline into your project. Stack Overflow is probably the closest we’ve gotten to a generalized solution and it doesn’t exactly feel like a good one.

I came across this once before in the form of a react hooks library that had no dependency to install. It was just a website and when you found the hook you wanted you were meant to paste it into your project.

GitHub gists are probably the best technical option. They come with versioning (I think), and have comment threads.