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

Cursor reportedly instructed a person going by the identify “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 may be finishing your work … you must develop the logic your self. This ensures you perceive the system and may preserve it correctly,” janswist stated Cursor instructed him after he spent an hour “vibe” coding with the instrument.

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

Janswist speculated that he hit some form of laborious restrict at 750-800 strains of code, though different customers replied that Cursor will write extra code than that for them. One commenter steered that janswist ought to have used Cursor’s “agent” integration, which works for greater coding initiatives. 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 may get when asking questions on programming discussion board Stack Overflow, of us on Hacker Information identified.

The suggestion is that if Cursor skilled on that website it might have realized not simply coding suggestions, however human snark as properly.