Re: Is it okay to remove half of FlightGear wiki to make it easier to process by AI?

On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM Josh Davidson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> "I believe we are now in the AI era, and integrating AI usage is
> necessary. If FG doesn't adopt AI, it will inevitably be overtaken by other
> open-source flight simulators."
>
> What a joke.
>
> --
> Josh Davidson
>


Indeed.

Wikis came about in a time before agentic AI. Wiki admins are going to have
a hard time given this increasingly common situation. I think we're going
to see many more wikis restricted to vetted contributors.

I share some of Curt's memories. I grew up building complex plastic models,
then building flying balsa and spruce models, then control-line models
(anyone remember those?) and then to R/C aircraft, all built by hand the
hard way. Not to mention quite a few Heathkit stuff (I built my own servos,
etc.). We have a lot of cool stuff now, but we traded a lot for it and the
sudden extreme rise of these LLMs makes me suspect there's more yet to lose.

-Gary
aka Buckaroo

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