With the development of artificial intelligence technologies, there are more and more algorithms designed to speed up and automate everyday tasks. However, so-called AI agents may not always be equally useful. This was recently proven by Anysphere’s AI assistant for writing Cursor programming code. According to a user with the nickname janswist, sooner or later Cursor simply refused to generate code, telling the user that they had to learn how to do it themselves.
“I can’t generate the code for you, as that would mean doing your own work <…> you have to develop the logic yourself. This will ensure that you understand the system and can support it properly,” the algorithm told the user after about an hour of working together.
Soon after, janswist wrote about the appearance of the said message on the support forum and attached a corresponding screenshot to his post. There has been no official response from the developers on this issue yet. It can be assumed that janswist has reached a certain limit of 750-800 lines of generated code, although other users have reported that Cursor has helped them write large amounts of programming code.
Image source: forum.cursor.com
It is noted that Cursor’s failure to generate programming code is very similar to the answers that novice programmers can get by asking questions on the Stack Overflow topic forum. It is possible that in case Cursor was trained on data from this site, he could not only learn how to give programming advice, but also leave sarcastic comments like people.