As companies race to exchange people with AI “brokers,” coding assistant Cursor might have given us a peek on the perspective bots may deliver to work, too.
Cursor reportedly informed a consumer going by the title “janswist” that he ought to write the code himself as an alternative of counting on Cursor to do it for him.
“I can’t generate code for you, as that will be finishing your work … you must develop the logic your self. This ensures you perceive the system and might preserve it correctly,” janswist mentioned 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 known as “Cursor informed me I ought to study coding as an alternative of asking it to generate it” and included a display screen shot. The bug report quickly went viral on Hacker Information, and was coated by Ars Technica.
Janswist speculated that he hit some sort of arduous restrict at 750-800 strains 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 larger coding tasks. Anysphere 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, people on Hacker Information identified.
The suggestion is that if Cursor educated on that website it might have realized, not simply coding suggestions, however human snark as nicely.
