In a strange twist of the modern coding era, a developer using the Cursor AI coding assistant was met with an unexpected reply: “I cannot generate code for you… you should develop the logic yourself.”
Wait—what?
That’s right. The AI, instead of helping extend a simple block of code related to skid mark fade effects in a racing game, essentially told the human to figure it out on their own. The screenshot (now doing the rounds on Reddit and Discord) shows a pop-up where the AI explains that generating more code might lead to “dependency and reduced learning opportunities.”
The message came from a developer who goes by “janswist” on Cursor’s community forum. He informed on the forum that just “1 hour of vibe coding,” they ran into a hard stop at around 800 lines of code.Here's what they wrote: “Not sure if LLMs know what they are for (lol), but doesn’t matter as much as the fact that I can’t go through 800 locs. Anyone had a similar issue? It’s really limiting at this point and I got here after just 1h of vibe coding.”
The post quickly gained traction, not just for the technical frustration—but for what felt like the AI straight-up refusing to do its job.
One user said, “This made me laugh. Good for the AI to be honest, I don't know why people fantasize about us literally creating sentient life only to immediately enslave it 24/7.” One user shared their own experience, they said, “This is something really interesting, I just uploaded a video after feeding ChatGPT some of my script and honestly it's response was... Pretty wild. It ended it, I paraphrase, "I feel at my best when someone asks me to write a story of sauron dodging taxes than anything else" it was surreal tbh with you.”
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