When will the code you depend on spontaneously combust? Find out.
Every JavaScript package is maintained by someone's side project. Every framework you trust will eventually have a new major version. Security vulnerabilities are discovered constantly. Your stack isn't stable—it's just not broken yet.
With 50+ dependencies, you're absorbing breaking changes from 50 independent teams on their own schedules. The probability that something breaks grows exponentially. Not linearly. Exponentially.
Quick answers to common questions
Software isn't like bridges. Bridges get built once and stand for decades. Code is alive, and everything it depends on is mutating. Citi's research confirms what developers already know: volatility isn't a phase. It's the permanent condition. Your dependencies are being forked, deprecated, and exploited as we speak. The only question is when your specific house of cards catches fire.