The open-source mapping project QGIS has merged a proposal that, in the author's words, "formally changes the AI policy to a strict 'NOT ALLOWED' policy." It supersedes an earlier policy, QEP 408, under which AI-assisted work was allowed…
In the News: October 12, 2026 (Extra)
QGIS now bars AI-written code contributions outright, and a paper trains a small model to rewrite an agent's harness at test time.
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A small model trained to rewrite a solver's harness beats its larger teacher on average, on reasoning tasks
The authors train a proposer model with reinforcement learning to edit the executable harness around a frozen solver, using execution reports as feedback. No weights change at test time; the harness revisions play that role.