[PROJ] LLM/AI tool policy

[Kristian Evers]

The influx of LLM-written issues and PRs has definitely increased lately. I find the policy text rather good and am in favour of adopting it. Probably should be formalised in a RFC.

Thanks for bringing it up, Even.

/Kristian

> On 12 Mar 2026, at 21.35, Kurt Schwehr via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Heh. The point of the point of my LLM list was definitely just how silly / annoying this stuff can be.
>
> I'm currently getting eaten alive by AI stuff for my non-PROJ/GDAL work. I spend most of my day slogging through AI generated comments and code trying to figure out what is good, not good, or needs my help to become good. Or I'm trying to figure out how to prompt the tools to do what I want them to.
>
> +1 on the LLM coding world currently being stressful when the results are not throw away material.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM Javier Jimenez Shaw via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> As a first step I find it ok. Let's see if it is enough.
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 at 18:14, Thomas Knudsen via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have spent a few minutes trying very hard to disagree with the contents of the GDAL AI tool policy. Unfortunately (and much to my regret 🙂), I did not find a single word, letter, whitespace character, or punctuation mark worth disagreeing with.
>>>
>>> I would, however, suggest modifying Even's suggestion of "s/GDAL/PROJ/" to the only slightly more verbose "s/GDAL/PROJ/g" 🙂
>>>
>>> /Thomas
>>>
>>> Den tors. 12. mar. 2026 kl. 17.38 skrev Even Rouault via PROJ <proj at lists.osgeo.org>:
>>>
>>>> (resending due to yesterday's OSGeo server maintenance)
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>>>> -------- Message transféré --------
>>>> Sujet :	LLM/AI tool policy
>>>> Date :	Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:03:39 +0100
>>>> De :	Even Rouault [<even.rouault at spatialys.com>](mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com)
>>>> Pour :	proj [<proj at lists.osgeo.org>](mailto:proj at lists.osgeo.org)
>>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> after GDAL and QGIS, I strongly suspect we also now receive LLM driven contributions. What about adopting https://gdal.org/en/stable/community/ai_tool_policy.html with s/GDAL/PROJ ?
>>>>
>>>> Even
>>>>
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