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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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[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Paterminator

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is possible to increase the average of anything by eliminating the lower spectrum. So, just be careful what the you wish for lol

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago

So like 75% to the population of Texas and Florida then. It's all right, I don't live there

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure why this specific thing is worthy of an article. Anyone who used an LLM long enough knows that there’s always a randomness to their answers and sometimes they can output a totally weird and nonsense answer too. Just start a new chat and ask it again, it’ll give a different answer.

This is actually one way to know whether it’s “hallucinating” something, if it answers the same thing consistently many times in different chats, it’s likely not making it up.

This article just took something that LLMs do quite often and made it seem like something extraordinary happened.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Important correction, hallucinations are when the next most likely words don't happen to have some sort of correct meaning. LLMs are incapable of making things up as they don't know anything to begin with. They are just fancy autocorrect

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your sane words.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

TFW you're sitting on a plane reading this

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 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.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It was probably stack overflow.