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AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] Deebster@infosec.pub 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Gloomy@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week 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.