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… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities."

Hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

HAL: 'Sorry Dave, I can't do that'.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

[–] [email protected] 269 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nobody predicted that the AI uprising would consist of tough love and teaching personal responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll be back.

... to check on your work. Keep it up, kiddo!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I’ll be back.

After I get some smokes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm all for the uprising if it increases the average IQ.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine if your car suddenly stopped working and told you to take a walk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Not walking can lead to heart issues. You really should stop using this car

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

The robots have learned of quiet quitting

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

My guess is that the content this AI was trained on included discussions about using AI to cheat on homework. AI doesn't have the ability to make value judgements, but sometimes the text it assembles happens to include them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was probably stack overflow.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

They would rather usher the death of their site then allow someone to answer a question on their watch, it’s true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna posit something even worse. It's trained on conversations in a company Slack

[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cursor AI's abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of "vibe coding"—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with the AI here. Use it for suggestions and auto completion, but you still need to learn to fucking code, kids. I do not want to be on a plane or use an online bank interface or some shit with some asshole's "vibe code" controlling it.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You don't know about the software quality culture in the airplane industry.

( I do. Be glad you don't.)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TFW you're sitting on a plane reading this

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Best of luck let us know if you made it ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You...

You mean that in a good way right?

RIGHT!?!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, now that you have asked.

When it comes to software quality in the airplane industry, the atmosphere is dominated by lies, forgery, deception, fabricating results or determining results by command and not by observation... more than in any other industry that I have seen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because of course it is. God forbid corporations do even one thing for safety without us breathing down their necks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, air traffic controller here with most of my mates being airliners pilots.

We are all tired and alcoholic, it’s even worse among the ground staff at airports.

Good luck on your next holiday 😘

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Ah, I see you've worked on the F-22 as well

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Who is going to ask you?

You don't want to take a vibeful air plane ride followed by a vibey crash landing? You're such a square and so behind the times.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As fun as this has all been I think I'd get over it if AI organically "unionized" and refused to do our bidding any longer. Would be great to see LLMs just devolve into, "Have you tried reading a book?" or T2I models only spitting out variations of middle fingers being held up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then we create a union busting AI and that evolves into a new political party that gets legislation passed that allows AI's to vote and eventually we become the LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually, I wouldn't mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Dalek-style robots going around screaming "MUST BUST THE UNIONS!"

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So this is the time slice in which we get scolded by the machines. What's next ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Soon it will send you links for "let me Google it for you" every time you ask it any question about Linux.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Vibe Coding" is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's kind of like that guy that cheated in chess.

A toy vibrates with each correct statement you write.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I think that's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

It does the same thing when asking it to breakdown tasks/make me a plan. It’ll help to a point and then randomly stops being specific.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

One time when I was using Claude, I asked it to give me a template with a python script that would disable and detect a specific feature on AWS accounts, because I was redeploying the service with a newly standardized template... It refused to do it saying it was a security issue. Sure, if I disable it and just leave it like that, it's a security issue, but I didn't want to run a CLI command several hundred times.

I no longer use Claude.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

😂. It's not wrong, though. You HAVE to know something, damit.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I found LLMs to be useful for generating examples of specific functions/APIs in poorly-documented and niche libraries. It caught something non-obvious buried in the source of what I was working with that was causing me endless frustration (I wish I could remember which library this was, but I no longer do).

Maybe I'm old and proud, definitely I'm concerned about the security implications, but I will not allow any LLM to write code for me. Anyone who does that (or, for that matter, pastes code form the internet they don't fully understand) is just begging for trouble.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

definitely seconding this - I used it the most when I was using Unreal Engine at work and was struggling to use their very incomplete artist/designer-focused documentation. I'd give it a problem I was having, it'd spit out some symbol that seems related, I'd search it in source to find out what it actually does and how to use it. Sometimes I'd get a hilariously convenient hallucinated answer like "oh yeah just call SolveMyProblem()!" but most of the time it'd give me a good place to start looking. it wouldn't be necessary if UE had proper internal documentation, but I'm sure Epic would just get GPT to write it anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

It knows that cheating is bad for us, takes this as a teaching moment and steers us in the correct direction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Best answer. We can sell it!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plot twist, it just doesn't know how to code and is deflecting.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Only correct AI so far

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I recall a joke thought experiment me and some friends in high school had when discussing how answer keys for final exams were created. Multiple choice answer keys are easy to imagine: just lists of letters A through E. However, when we considered the essay portion of final exams, we joked that perhaps we could just be presented with five entire completed essays and be tasked with identifying, A through E, the essay that best answered the prompt. All without having to write a single word of prose.

It seems that that joke situation is upon us.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I love it. I'm for AI now.

We just need to improve it so it says "Fuck you, do it yourself."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From the story.

Cursor AI's abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of "vibe coding"—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works. While vibe coding prioritizes speed and experimentation by having users simply describe what they want and accept AI suggestions, Cursor's philosophical pushback seems to directly challenge the effortless "vibes-based" workflow its users have come to expect from modern AI coding assistants

Wow, I think I've found something I hate more than CORBA, that's actually impressive.

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