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 <[email protected]> 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
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> 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
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> (resending due to yesterday's OSGeo server maintenance)
>>>>
>>>> -------- Message transféré --------
>>>> Sujet : LLM/AI tool policy
>>>> Date : Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:03:39 +0100
>>>> De : Even Rouault
>>>> [<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
>>>> Pour : proj [<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
>>>>
>>>> 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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