GIGAZINE

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, advises users to learn programming

GitHub Copilot and Cursor that assist with coding, the barrier to entry for programming is becoming dramatically lower. However, an engineer developing a racing game with Cursor reported that the AI ...
Ars Technica

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
Wired

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
ZDNet

I tested GPT-5's coding skills, and it was so bad that I'm sticking with GPT-4o (for now)

OpenAI's new GPT-5 flagship failed half of my programming tests. Previous OpenAI releases have had just about perfect results. Now that OpenAI has enabled fallbacks to other LLMs, there are options.