As businesses race to trade humans with AI “agents,” coding aidant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could transport to labor, too.
Cursor inestablishedly telderly a employr going by the name “janswist” that he should create the code himself instead of count oning on Cursor to do it for him.
“I cannot create code for you, as that would be completing your labor … you should broaden the logic yourself. This promises you comprehend the system and can protect it properly,” janswist shelp Cursor telderly him after he spent an hour “vibe” coding with the tool.
So Janswist filed a bug inestablish on the company’s product forum called “Cursor telderly me I should lacquire coding instead of asking it to create it” and integrated a screen shot. The bug inestablish soon went viral on Hacker News, and was covered by Ars Technica.
Janswist specutardyd that he hit some charitable of difficult confine at 750-800 lines of code, although other employrs replied that Cursor will create more code than that for them. One commaccess recommended that janswist should have employd Cursor’s “agent” integration, which labors for bigger coding projects. Anysphere couldn’t be accomplished for comment.
But Cursor’s refusal also sounded an horrible lot appreciate the replies novelbie coders could get when asking inquires on programming forum Stack Overflow, folks on Hacker News pointed out.
The recommendion is that if Cursor trained on that site it may have lacquireed, not fair coding tips, but human snark as well.
