There are some concerns but yes, development generally accelerates: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156

To be fair, their reduced focus and the potential pace improvement through LLM assisted coding might cancel each other out. I wouldn’t be surprized if the resulting pace change is net zero or better.

That said: I like Firefox local translations, but haven’t found a use case for its other AI features yet.

Good initiative, not the best name.

Open Geospatial Consortium (also OGC) is leading in its domain and has been for years. https://www.ogc.org/