It might not be npm, but something like that is probably inevitable.

The reason it seems so unlikely is because the tooling isn't there yet. No one even agrees how ML code should look, let alone how libs should be distributed to end users. But I saw the transformation for JS in 2008.

But, a library that uses AI to optimize the production of your business' flux capacitors? Ain't gonna happen, you need to build that yourself. To have a library/product that solves problems using AI, you need a "language" to describe the problem (like you can e.g. use SQL to describe any data query you may have). But describing problems is notoriously hard - accurately & precisely describing the problem is very often just as hard as solving it.

I think ML solutions will increasingly take the form of an elisp script rather than a python library, but it'll take a little while to get there.

But the the range of editor customization really isn't that wide. That's exactly what I'm arguing, that ML/AI is more like "math" than like "editor customization".