Coding assistants for KDE

[Justin Zobel]

On 19/05/2025 06:05, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 21:32:20 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Ingo Klöcker
> wrote:
>> Yes, there is the theoretical threat that an AI learned code that's under a
>> less liberal license like the GPL or even under one of the "new" not-OSI-
>> approved licenses used by certain companies to prevent Amazon from selling
>> services based on their code (or even proprietary code; for all we know, Co-
>> Pilot was trained with the entire source code written by Microsoft), but
>> that's only a problem if the AI cites this code literally so that we could
>> be sued for plagiarizing. How realistic is this threat?
> To turn this discussion into something positive: Maybe we should train our own
> coding assistant AI(s) for Kate/KDevelop with code relevant for C++ and QML
> which respects the licenses. We'd have an AI model for writing LGPL code that
> was trained with KF and Qt source code (and other KDE code that's LGPL-
> compatible) and we'd have a second AI model for writing GPL code that was
> trained additionally with all of our GPL code.
>
> Kate would automatically use the correct model based on the SPDX license of
> the current file.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
A nice thought, but we would need to invest quite a bit of money into 
this to get it to work correctly, from my understanding.
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