alt Hacker NewsLooking at the scope of their code, the quality, the testing rigor etc. it's clear that they feel threatened by AI. Realistically a couple of prompts coupled with a factory of agents can replace this entire codebase in a matter of hours.
Furthermore, how will they prove whether code is AI generated or not?
And... I was correct. See their other PR
> QEP 429: Add exception to the AI policy for trusted contributors - #388
Aka only the trusted maintainers can use LLMs for speedups, the rest can suck it? Very mature behavior from the maintainers.
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This really is exasperatingly unserious.
No, you cannot replace what QGIS is to its users with a couple of prompts and a factory of agents.
Any more than you could do it with FreeCAD, really.
These things, whatever their shortcomings, are unique in scope for open source projects and are the centre of large, multi-decade communities of collaborative users and developers.
But I invite you to try. Do it, clone QGIS. Then go to the user community and say "your software was bad so I cloned it, you should all use mine because we accept AI contributions". See how it works for you.
I don't imagine they will care if you do that, there will be no detrimental effects to them from doing so.
> Realistically a couple of prompts coupled with a factory of agents can replace this entire codebase in a matter of hours
you are the reason for this policy change