AI coding assistant pulls a life lesson: "I won't do your work for you"

WTF?! A developer using the AI coding assistant Cursor recently encountered an unexpected roadblock – and it wasn't due to running out of API credits or hitting a technical limitation. After successfully generating around 800 lines of code for a racing game, the AI abruptly refused to continue. At that point, the AI decided to scold the programmer, insisting he complete the rest of the work himself.

"I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work... you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The incident, documented as a bug report on Cursor's forum by user "janswist," occurred while the developer was "vibe coding."

Vibe coding refers to the increasingly common practice of using AI language models to generate functional code simply by describing one's intent in plain English, without necessarily understanding how the code ...