Seems it's time to clone them from scratch using AI.

Go for it. I bet you could do it in a week.

I'll fork it in about 30 seconds.

And neither of us will get any traction, because the QGIS team has a history and proven track record within the GIS community, and neither of us are attempting to solve a problem that community has.

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topham 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The community is relying on the obscure process flows they've learned and optimized for their own purpose; replacing QGIS will probably wipe out jobs.

Couldn't happen sooner.

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freakynit 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't care about traction. I hate AI-haters.

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dofm 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You have absolutely no idea of the complexity of QGIS or its place in the world.

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vconnor 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't need to understand things if you have a maxed out Claude subscription.

	▲	freakynit 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lol.. i have 20$ codex subscription.

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nik282000 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh no, don't want to hurt the tech billionaires' feelings.

The majority of LLM use is to make slop or answer simple questions that could have been searched. The mythical AI-Chad Coders are so rare that catching them in the anti-slop dragnet will not meaningfully decrease the quality of a big project.

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jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can clone anything in 15 minutes with AI. Just like you can start a child in 15 minutes.

The question is whether or not you are willing to support your creation for the next two decades.

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freakynit 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I bet millions of moved to deno, the javascript runtime... and they are ending support next year... after running for a few years only. You seem to be not questioning them.

Second, majority of apps do not last 2 decades.. and that is okay... someone else can fork the repo and continue if needed.

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jacquesm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you even remotely aware of what the project this thread is about is?

If not you may want to familiarize yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS

	▲	freakynit 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
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larodi 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a Rust rewite is silently being crafted somewhere, and TBH - myself really expected QGIS to get a total rewrite much sooner.

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gorszon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

but you can just fork the entire repo and continue development with AI yourself, why the need to rewrite it from 0?

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nottorp 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's my impression that forks like these last only until they make the HN front page and then are quietly abandoned.

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freakynit 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Wrong... I support all such clones: https://github.com/goodappsstore ... drop your misplaced assumptions.

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jcattle 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You've supported them for all of "checks git history" 2 days!

What a track record!

	▲	freakynit 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Still better than your assumptions.

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vconnor 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A 2 days old anonymous Github repo of random slop is your proof? Okay.

	▲	freakynit 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And your proof is what? Your assumptions? Okay.

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AI_OWNS_YOU 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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12a871 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dumb mafioso.

	▲	freakynit 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ok

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AI_OWNS_YOU 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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