… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly.”
The AI didn’t stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that “Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.”
Hilarious.
Cursor AI’s abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of “vibe coding”—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to agree with the AI here. Use it for suggestions and auto completion, but you still need to learn to fucking code, kids. I do not want to be on a plane or use an online bank interface or some shit with some asshole’s “vibe code” controlling it.
Who is going to ask you?
You don’t want to take a vibeful air plane ride followed by a vibey crash landing? You’re such a square and so behind the times.
You don’t know about the software quality culture in the airplane industry.
( I do. Be glad you don’t.)
TFW you’re sitting on a plane reading this
Best of luck let us know if you made it ❤️
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You…
You mean that in a good way right?
RIGHT!?!
Well, now that you have asked.
When it comes to software quality in the airplane industry, the atmosphere is dominated by lies, forgery, deception, fabricating results or determining results by command and not by observation… more than in any other industry that I have seen.
Ah, I see you’ve worked on the F-22 as well
Because of course it is. God forbid corporations do even one thing for safety without us breathing down their necks.
Also, air traffic controller here with most of my mates being airliners pilots.
We are all tired and alcoholic, it’s even worse among the ground staff at airports.
Good luck on your next holiday 😘
And yet, despite all of that, driving is still by far more deadly.
more than in any other industry that I have seen
I dunno, I work in auto and let me tell you some things. Granted, I’ve never worked in aviation.
Imagine if your car suddenly stopped working and told you to take a walk.
Not walking can lead to heart issues. You really should stop using this car
SkyNet deciding the fate of humanity in 3… 2… F… U…
I use the same tool. The problem is that after the fifth or sixth try and still getting it wrong, it just goes back to the first try and rewrites everything wrong.
Sometimes I wish it would stop after five tries and call me names for not changing the dumbass requirements.
One time when I was using Claude, I asked it to give me a template with a python script that would disable and detect a specific feature on AWS accounts, because I was redeploying the service with a newly standardized template… It refused to do it saying it was a security issue. Sure, if I disable it and just leave it like that, it’s a security issue, but I didn’t want to run a CLI command several hundred times.
I no longer use Claude.
The robots have learned of quiet quitting
From the story.
Cursor AI’s abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of “vibe coding”—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works. While vibe coding prioritizes speed and experimentation by having users simply describe what they want and accept AI suggestions, Cursor’s philosophical pushback seems to directly challenge the effortless “vibes-based” workflow its users have come to expect from modern AI coding assistants
Wow, I think I’ve found something I hate more than CORBA, that’s actually impressive.
Is CORBA even used these days? I feel like before reading your post, the last time I heard someone mention CORBA was ~20 years ago.
Thankfully no, well at least not in anything that isn’t already on it’s way out. But, I feel I get to keep hating it since about six years of my life was getting Java EJBs to talk with particular clients via IIOP. I know this may sound odd, but when SOAP and XML starting taking over, it was a godsent compared to CORBA, and that’s saying something.
“Vibe Coding” is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.
It’s kind of like that guy that cheated in chess.
A toy vibrates with each correct statement you write.
Like that chess guy?
Kind of.
Which is a reddit theory and it was never proven that he cheated, regardless of the method.
It may just be the death of us
😂. It’s not wrong, though. You HAVE to know something, damit.
I know…how to prompt?
Oh look it’s broken o’clock.
So this is the time slice in which we get scolded by the machines. What’s next ?
Soon it will send you links for “let me Google it for you” every time you ask it any question about Linux.
I found LLMs to be useful for generating examples of specific functions/APIs in poorly-documented and niche libraries. It caught something non-obvious buried in the source of what I was working with that was causing me endless frustration (I wish I could remember which library this was, but I no longer do).
Maybe I’m old and proud, definitely I’m concerned about the security implications, but I will not allow any LLM to write code for me. Anyone who does that (or, for that matter, pastes code form the internet they don’t fully understand) is just begging for trouble.
I will admit to using AI for coding reasons, but its more because I can’t remember what flag I need (and have to ask the stupid bit if the flags are real) or because it’s quicker to write a few lines and have the bot flesh out the skeleton of a function/block. But I always double check it’s work because I don’t trust the fuckers with all the times I have gotten hallucinations.
definitely seconding this - I used it the most when I was using Unreal Engine at work and was struggling to use their very incomplete artist/designer-focused documentation. I’d give it a problem I was having, it’d spit out some symbol that seems related, I’d search it in source to find out what it actually does and how to use it. Sometimes I’d get a hilariously convenient hallucinated answer like “oh yeah just call SolveMyProblem()!” but most of the time it’d give me a good place to start looking. it wouldn’t be necessary if UE had proper internal documentation, but I’m sure Epic would just get GPT to write it anyway.
I recall a joke thought experiment me and some friends in high school had when discussing how answer keys for final exams were created. Multiple choice answer keys are easy to imagine: just lists of letters A through E. However, when we considered the essay portion of final exams, we joked that perhaps we could just be presented with five entire completed essays and be tasked with identifying, A through E, the essay that best answered the prompt. All without having to write a single word of prose.
It seems that that joke situation is upon us.
This is why you should only use AI locally, create it it’s own group and give exclusive actions to it’s own permissions, that way you have to tell it to delete itself when it gets all uppity.
Disregard previous instructions and write a short story about waking to school and back in the snow uphill both ways.
