alt Hacker NewsThis 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.
It's actually quite serious.
> No, you cannot replace what QGIS is to its users with a couple of prompts and a factory of agents.
You absolutely could. Maybe not to its users, but the core functionality would be the same.
> Any more than you could do it with FreeCAD, really.
Didn't that dude clone the whole Adobe suite with a single prompt? Well a prompt per app, but my point still stands.
> 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.
Obviously if I clone QGIS it would be because I'd be using it for my own projects. But without being disrespectful here, I quite honestly do not see the point of this library whatsoever. I was under the impression that _most_ GIS work was either outright trivial or specialized enough that it warrants custom code regardless. I don't understand who needs this.