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

Me thinks and hopes we are going through growing pains. I’m not thrilled
with it. When auto-spell check first started to happen, I viewed it as
“dumbing down” tools. But I think we started to incorporate them as the
tools that they are. I hope that is the case here, that “AI” is a tool, not
a replacement to learning. I like asking, “what is the C syntax for a given
function” and getting technical information instantly.  It means I am
working on something and am essentially consulting a “man” page. But I am
not thrilled with the “write this app” approach. Learning should be an
integral part of the process, not an afterthought. Hopefully this growing
pain phase will just be a phase and this “AI” facade will be seen for what
it really is, a tool for human intelligence, not a replacement. As long as
I see kids ultimately getting smarter, I’m happy. I’m sure many years ago
people were upset that the abacus was no longer needed. But … it wasn’t. If
it’s all an evolution, great. But sometimes when we are in these times it’s
difficult to see the forest for the trees. But at the same time, we do need
rules. And in these cases, humans should have the last word. AI is ok for
dispensing pure information, after all, it’s really a sophisticated
database. But it should not replace what we mean.

Just my 2 cents.
Dave

On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM Curtis Olson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 11:35 AM 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.
>>
>
> LOL, made me wonder what general purpose flight simulator code the AI
> would be trained on ....
>
> I don't mind using AI as a research assistant.  How do I make the button
> green with rounded corners, or remind me the numpy function that does the
> thing, or help me understand why this error message ... but designing the
> architecture and writing the critical core code is all the fun stuff.  I
> don't know about anyone else but for me the best and most fun toys I've
> ever played with are the ones I built myself or contributed to ... and
> building them was the funnest part.  Legos?  Electronics kits?  Model
> airplanes?  FlightGear!  There's nothing better than seeing a thing you
> built (or you and the team you are on for bigger projects) flying
> gloriously.  Well, that, and learning how to do something new and cool.
>
> AI is a great crutch to get through school and get you through all your
> projects ... probably get you all A's ... until you get to your first job
> interview and can't say anything useful about all the things on your
> resume.  "Nice guy, but couldn't go even one level deep on any of his past
> projects.  Shame, they sounded like cool projects, I was hoping to learn
> more about them ..."
>
> Curt.
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