AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code

As companies race to interchange people with AI “brokers,” coding assistant Cursor could have given us a peek on the perspective bots might deliver to work, too. 

Cursor reportedly informed a consumer going by the title “janswist” that he ought to write the code himself as a substitute of counting on Cursor to do it for him.

“I can’t generate code for you, as that might be finishing your work … you need to develop the logic your self. This ensures you perceive the system and might preserve it correctly,” janswist stated Cursor informed him after he spent an hour “vibe” coding with the software.

So janswist filed a bug report on the corporate’s product discussion board: “Cursor informed me I ought to be taught coding as a substitute of asking it to generate it,” and included a display shot. The bug report quickly went viral on Hacker Information, and was lined by Ars Technica.

Janswist speculated that he hit some sort of onerous restrict at 750-800 traces of code, though different customers replied that Cursor will write extra code than that for them. One commenter instructed that janswist ought to have used Cursor’s “agent” integration, which works for greater coding tasks. Anysphere, maker of Cursor, couldn’t be reached for remark.

However Cursor’s refusal additionally sounded an terrible lot just like the replies beginner coders might get when asking questions on programming discussion board Stack Overflow, people on Hacker Information identified.

The suggestion is that if Cursor skilled on that web site it could have discovered not simply coding suggestions, however human snark as effectively.