QGIS Just Banned AI Contributions Completely. The Best Argument for It Came From Someone Who Did It
Description and use
<p>One of the world's most popular open-source GIS applications has decided that AI-assisted contributions are not welcome at all, in any form, and the merged policy document is shorter than most pull request templates. QGIS enhancement proposal QEP428, titled "No ai contributions permitted," was merged on October 7, 2026, and it formally replaces the project's previous "human in the loop" AI policy with a strict NOT ALLOWED policy. When it hit the Hacker News front page it collected hundreds of points and hundreds of comments in a few hours, most of them arguing about whether a volunteer comm
Problem
<p>One of the world's most popular open-source GIS applications has decided that AI-assisted contributions are not welcome at all, in any form, and the merged policy document is shorter than most pull request templates. QGIS enhancement proposal QEP428, titled "No ai contributions permitted," was merged on October 7, 2026, and it formally replaces the project's previous "human in the loop" AI policy with a strict NOT ALLOWED policy. When it hit the Hacker News front page it collected hundreds of points and hundreds of comments in a few hours, most of them arguing about whether a volunteer comm
Outcome
<p>One of the world's most popular open-source GIS applications has decided that AI-assisted contributions are not welcome at all, in any form, and the merged policy document is shorter than most pull request templates. QGIS enhancement proposal QEP428, titled "No ai contributions permitted," was merged on October 7, 2026, and it formally replaces the project's previous "human in the loop" AI policy with a strict NOT ALLOWED policy. When it hit the Hacker News front page it collected hundreds of points and hundreds of comments in a few hours, most of them arguing about whether a volunteer comm
Evidence
QGIS Just Banned AI Contributions Completely. The Best Argument for It Came From Someone Who Did It
- Record date: 2026-10-12T17:41:40.898Z