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AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code (futurism.com)

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

I'll take "bullshit that never happened" for 400, Alex

[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

Oh it did, they fed it data from Stack Overflow.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Could have been Reddit data. Stack Overflow is more heavy on the probability of telling them it's a question that's been asked before.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Or that what they are trying to do is stupid and just do X instead, which to be fair is usually actually the correct take

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Not that it couldn't be faked, but here's the bug report with screenshot: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

So going trough this the reason the AI replied like it did is because the user used a feature called "quick question" that can only respond with text and not code. (It's the last answer marked as "solution" in the linked thread.

Still funny tough.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

It was obviously trained on content from Stack Overflow.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

AGI has arrived 🎉

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Looks like the AI has trained on enough "this looks like your homework assignment, good luck!" comments

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Finally it does something useful for once

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Good advice.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I'm not a coder. I don't know how to code. But this right here made me laugh, and is proof that AI isn't ALWAYS a garbled mess!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

This is reheated news?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I just wanted to comment "And this week in old as fuck news:"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

AI wiLl tAkE oUr jObS

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Next post, AI tells user to "get a job"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Next post, AI makes fun of user for not knowing how to code

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Now it's just going for those sr dev roles...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-14

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZ2j9yK_NY

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

what a cool stock photo

this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025

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