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


AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly refused to help a user with their code, insisting that they do it themselves.

As businesses race to replace humans with AI “agents,” coding assistant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could bring to work, too. So Janswist filed a bug report on the company’s product forum called “Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it” and included a screen shot. But Cursor’s refusal also sounded an awful lot like the replies newbie coders could get when asking questions on programming forum Stack Overflow, folks on Hacker News pointed out.

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