Coding agents now set up many new projects, and every package they install is a decision someone used to make by hand. So I read the package files of 8,923 JavaScript and TypeScript repositories created on GitHub in October 2024 and 7,046 created this October, and sorted this year's by whether an AI tool left a trace in them (a co-author line, an agent instruction file, an app builder's signature).
Where the ecosystem had already picked a winner (zod, Tailwind), agent-traced projects look like everyone else.
Where the fight was still open, they are much further along. In React apps that pick a data library, axios was in 80% in 2024, 35% this October without a trace, and 13% with one.
MongoDB went from 43% of projects that pick a database layer, to 22% without a trace, to 6% with one.
The agents are not picking the winners. They are finishing the fights.
What I took from it: if your project needs something off the default path, a document store or a plain HTTP client, you now have to ask for it explicitly. An agent is unlikely to suggest it.
Full method and data in the X Article (28 Oct): https://x.com/con_golias/status/2115247029710397744