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

While companies are racing to replace people with AI ‘agents’, coding assistant cursor may have given us a look at the attitude that Bots can also bring to work.

Allegedly Cursor told a user named “Janswist” that he should write the code himself instead of trusting a cursor to do it for him.

“I can’t generate a code for you, because that would complete your work … you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures that you understand the system and keep it well, “Janswist said that Cursor told him after he had spent an hour ‘atmosphere’ with the tool.

So Janswist has submitted A bug report On the company’s product forum: “Cursor told me that I had to learn coding instead of asking it to generate it,” and recorded a screenshot. The bug report soon went on viral Hacker news, and was covered Ars Technica.

Janswist speculated that he hit a kind of hard limit on 750-800 code rules, although other users replied that the cursor will write more code than that for them. One commentator suggested that Janswist should have used the “agent” integration of cursor, which works for larger coding projects. Anysphere, maker of Cursor, could not be achieved for comment.

But the refusal of the cursor also sounded a lot like the answers that NieuwsbieCoderders could get when asking questions about programming forum pile crossing, people on Hacker News are on.

The suggestion is that if the cursor is trained on that site, it may not only have learned tips, but also for human Snark.