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What Is Grounding? Why AI Coding Assistants Need Better Intelligence

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Grounding AI coding assistants in trusted software supply chain intelligence is essential as developers increasingly rely on AI to generate code, recommend dependencies, and accelerate software delivery.

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Source Attribution

Originally published by Sonatype (Maven/npm) on Jul 20, 2026.

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