Hallucinated Imports

Imports of packages not in package.json (AI hallucinations)

criticalReliabilityhallucinated-imports

Why this matters

AI tools confidently import packages that don't exist or have different names. The code looks correct but crashes immediately at runtime because the module isn't found.

✗ Bad

// AI hallucinated this package name
import { formatCurrency } from "next/currency";
import { useOptimistic } from "react-optimistic";

✓ Good

// Real packages that exist in package.json
import { formatCurrency } from "@/lib/format";
import { useOptimistic } from "react";

How to fix

Verify every import exists in your package.json. Run your code — hallucinated imports crash immediately. Check npm to confirm the package name is real.

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