LLM policy

[Alexandre Lessard]

After re-reading the Code of Conduct, I see how this could cover any issue
with LLMs, but now because of :
>
> PostGIS welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. We are
> committed to being a community that everyone feels good about joining, and
> we will always work to treat everyone well. No matter how you identify
> yourself or how others perceive you: we welcome you.


but because of the Specific guidelines, especially those points :

   - Be empathetic, welcoming, friendly, and patient; "At the moment, LLMs
   are welcoming, friendly, and patient, but empathetic isn't part of what
   they can do."
   - Be inquisitive; "LLMs aren't inquisitive by default, they need to be
   properly prompted to do so."
   - Be concise; "This is the biggest pain with open source projects right
   now, they are really verbose and are using a lot of the efforts of
   reviewers."
   - Step down considerately; "That is often an issue still, where either
   they don't acknowledge an issue, or they just repeat the same thing and
   pretend it's solved."

The biggest issue that needs to be resolved here is, who is the entity
breaking the code of conduct when this happens? Is it the human that
connected the LLM to the Repository, the agent instance, the agent
software/version, the agent developers, the LLMs, the LLM flavour, the LLM
Flavour and version, or the developers of the LLM. And how breaking the
Code of Conduct is going to be applied?

I believe that if those are clearly addressed to clear the confusion, the
code of conduct would be able to resolve any issue with humans,
corporations or LLM.

Thanks,
Alex.

P.S. To clear any ambiguities about my opinions, I do not like LLMs nor the
generative AI industry right now, I believe the it can be a really
useful tool in the hands of someone qualified, but I still find the ethical
issue of how they acquired their, data and how energy and hardware hungry
these things are. But I'm also of the opinion that if someone decides to
use them, they should do it properly and not be a net negative to society.

On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 07:02, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> I've stopped being maintainer of the pkgsrc package and am signing off
> the list.  I wish you well in postgis development!
>


-- 
Alexandre Lessard
DevOps - Mapgears
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