[QGIS-Developer] "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

[Laurențiu Nicola]

I think the LLVM policy is good. I'm still ambivalent about LLMs, but they can be useful, and banning them outright will not work. Some QGIS contributors are already using them, and there's a large spectrum between LLM-assisted completions (fancy autocomplete, not unlike the suggestion bar on a smartphone keyboard) and "vibe coding" ("Hey Claude, add NURBS support").

Laurentiu

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, at 20:20, Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as we're starting to get vibe coded pull requests, it might be 
> interesting to adopt a policy similar to the one of LLVM pointed at 
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Human-In-The-Loop. I guess we could 
> just copy&paste it replacing LLVM by QGIS.  Won't stop the flow but at 
> least we'd have something to point "vibe contributors" to.
>
> Even
>
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