Hi,
Seeing Copilot and QodaAssist in Qt Creator, and a lot of AI plugins in CLion and other JetBrains IDE’s I was just wondering if anyone in the KDevelop team is already working or planning to integrate AI services into KDevelop.
If so, could you prioritize integrating to an Ollama server running on a local network, please?
Or if a veteran KDevelop developer would partner with me to work together in implementing AI service integration please let know.
Well over half of us hope not.
Half+1. Half+1 hopes not.
Just a small thing like auto-complete on steroids for example. Or auto-inserting Doxygen comments to describe a function by just selecting the body of the function and hitting a shortcut for it.
I am using a local AI based on Ollama and I am finding it to be very helpful.
I have also been using it generate commit messages and it’s been doing a great job because it is describing every singe line in the diff, while I forget half of them by the time I am ready to push a commit.
We don’t need AI to do big things, we just need it to do minor and boring stuff.
I can the same on Kdevelop already, but I need to do a lot copy&paste back and forth.
would be really exciting to see AI integration in KDevelop! Support for a local Ollama server sounds like a practical first step, especially for developers who value privacy and offline workflows."
If some Copilot-type AI is ever integrated into KDE, that’s the day I say goodbye to KDE.
Copilot was one of the (many) reasons I left Windows. AI-tools can be useful in some way, so I’m not fully against. But it should be like Blender: default without AI and whoever wants or need it can install Addons. I even think the integration in kdenlive is questionable, where the model still has to be added. Especially since the “advertised” model is trained with stolen data. Even if it was trained by CC-BY licenses it is stolen, because there is no author of the original voices named. These licenses are not just for sharing data, but also for honoring creators for their work.
Well that might be an unpopular opinion but I believe that’s a necessity nowadays.
Of course as @Marata suggests, it should be opted-in by the user and not enabled by default.
The issue is that I am not aware of a good AI company that is somewhat aligned with the values of the Linux community. It feels eerie to add support for Microsoft Copilot to an IDE written by KDE.
Nevertheless, I think it’s not a question of “if” we should but “which” we should support.
Have you seen krita? 
Kdenlive and DigiKam also have AI. These, however, are optional to the KDE experience.
I finally dropped dual boot and went full Linux to scape “AI”. I’d be sad to ditch KDE, but I’d have to do it.
https://eco.kde.org ← This is great and important, this is what the world needs. “AI” throws us in the opposite direction. Even small models, which should be OK, are used too many times to legitimize the inmensely harmful ones.
Please, KDE, your ethics is your most valuable asset, please don’t compromise it.
AI as it is today really, really, REALLY awful and I hate how much corporate America seems to worship it so much.
The only reason I haven’t pivoted off of Firefox is because Firefox already has all of my settings and passwords just the way I like them; I hold no such stasis-based loyalty to KDE Plasma/Kubuntu, an OS environment I just switched to. If I saw that KDE Plasma were about to add AI tools, I would drop Kubuntu for Xubuntu in a heartbeat; or, if it were Ubuntu that were about to add AI tools, I’d drop the _ubuntu family entirely and swap to… idk, Fedora? Arch? Whatever distro actually respects the planet, respects humanity, and respects me as a person and user.
Here in The Netherlands we call AI:
afnemende intelligentie,
which means as much as:
deteriorating intelligence
I am not against having AI into KDE but it should :
That said AI coding tool do not fit all of what I think it is reasonable so it no-go for me
If people want to run hallucinogenic falsehood generators with KRunner, they’ll have to create their own plugin for that.
There’s also some apps for it I think.
As for Plasma, I prefer we keep these tools out of the system. People are moving to Plasma to get away from this stuff.
But it’s open for anyone to tinker with, so if someone needs a chatbot, they can extend it on their own.
Indeed! 100% agree!
Just a +1 here (or a -1 to the OP I guess).
Even if you leave to one side the IP rights horrors already well articulated above, or the corrosive effects on labour rights/relations (not that I think you can or should try in either case)…
The resource demands of this technology are immeasurably awful and cannot be reconciled with the perceived efficiency gains its boosters consider it capable of granting (which in many cases represent in and of themselves some of the most egregious cases of dishonest salesmanship I’ve ever seen).
I’ll be beyond disappointed to see KDE invest any significant money or effort in deliberate integration with LLMs. No putting up roadblocks either (tempting though the thought is), but going out of your way for compatibility will be a serious own-goal.
Planet’s on fire, y’all. Meet that moment.
Just wanted to drop in my own two cents: No AI in Plasma or KDE Software. Between the rampant copyright infringement required to make an AI useful and the immense energy cost, it goes against many things KDE stands for. I stick with Plasma in part because I want to Support Good People, and if KDE were to start adopting AI, I would feel compelled to abandon my support.
Perhaps the ONLY use of AI that I will ever support is the idea of adding a Nightshade filter to Krita. Being able to easily protect my own art from thieves attempting to fill out genAI training data is a very good idea.
Other than that? See my previous comment in this thread:
Yes please.
All those who are against…no one is forcing you to use it.