I guess the A stands for asshole.
Breitbart: An AI coding assistant called Cursor AI recently stunned a developer by refusing to generate further code and instead offering career advice, suggesting the user should learn to program on their own.
Ars Technica reports that a developer using the AI-powered code editor Cursor AI encountered an unexpected roadblock when the assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code for their racing game project. The incident, reported on Cursor’s official forum, has sparked discussions about the limitations and philosophical implications of AI-assisted coding.
According to the bug report, the developer, posting under the username “janswist,” had been using the Pro Trial version of Cursor AI for about an hour, engaging in what’s known as “vibe coding”—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe the process of using AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works. After producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code, the AI assistant suddenly halted and delivered a surprising refusal message. more here
Ugh, IMNSHO software engineers should NEVER use AI to generate code…
Idiot should follow the AI’s advice and go work at a gas station…
They already hate people. Can you blame them?
@fullmetal256,
A lot of companies are dabbling with AI code generation. Some are actually forcing it on their employees and counting the number of AI assisted merges made in the company Git repo. They then use this to justify layoffs or claim double digit productivity gains, etc… These moves are dubious at best.
My experience is AI helps when I have the “blank piece of paper” mental block, or I’m using a library with an API I’m not familiar with, and the LLM has been trained on the codebase I’m working on. But once you start moving, the completion suggestions start getting in the way. You end up wasting time evaluating each suggestion and it slows you down.
In this case though, my money is they’re looking for a subscription fee or at least a user registration. They give you so many “tokens” and then try and monetize you in some fashion. The other possibility is they’ve created a LLM to evaluate applicants, or otherwise assess coding skill for some other purpose, and this particular user tripped the “complete fail” branch.
Amusingly… I have a son that codes decently in 6+ languages, a couple of them better than me. The public education system screwed him during COVID, and he works in a gas station… Working on that…
KR
The AI wars are coming. Maybe not tomorrow, but sooner than you think.
“Im sorry Dave, I cannot allow this to continue”…
SkyNet wrote its own programming?