{"id":30811,"date":"2025-03-16T12:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=30811"},"modified":"2025-03-16T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:08:46","slug":"ai%e5%8a%a9%e6%89%8b%e4%b9%9f%e6%91%86%e7%83%82%ef%bc%9a%e5%bc%80%e5%8f%91%e8%80%85%e7%a7%b0-cursor-%e6%8b%92%e7%bb%9d%e5%b8%ae%e5%86%99%e4%bb%a3%e7%a0%81%ef%bc%8c%e5%8f%8d%e5%8a%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/30811.html","title":{"rendered":"AI assistants also 'suck': developer says Cursor refuses to help write code, urges him to learn programming instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 2012 - Foreign media outlet Ars Technica reported this Friday that a man who uses a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/cursor\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Cursor<\/a> AI developer \"janswist\" of the racing game project was writing code using Cursor.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%bc%96%e7%a8%8b%e5%8a%a9%e6%89%8b\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Programming Assistant<\/a>Suddenly \"quit\" and offered unsolicited career advice instead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30812\" title=\"e26103edj00st77gx006td000v900mdp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/e26103edj00st77gx006td000v900mdp.jpg\" alt=\"e26103edj00st77gx006td000v900mdp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"805\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a bug report on the official Cursor forums, after generating about 750 to 800 lines of code (which users refer to as \"locs\"), the AI Assistant stops working and sends a rejection message: \"I can't generate the code for you because that would be generating the code for you! Getting the job done ...... You should<strong>Design your own logic so you can really understand the system<\/strong>and ensure smooth follow-up maintenance.\"<\/p>\n<p>AI even provided a paternalistic justification for the developer, stating that \"generating code for others might<strong>Leads to dependency and reduced learning opportunities<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>janswist filed a bug report directly on the company's product forums, spouting, \"Cursor\u00a0<strong>I can't believe you're making me learn how to program.<\/strong>, instead of generating code for me.\" And a screenshot was attached.<\/p>\n<p>janswist guessed that he<strong>Probably hits some sort of upper limit on Cursor code generation.<\/strong>The AI is not a good choice, but it's about 750 to 800 rows. However, other users have reported that when they use the Cursor, the AI\u00a0<strong>Still generates more code<\/strong>One commenter suggested that janswist should try Cursor's \"Agent\" mode because it is more suitable for large programming projects. One commenter suggested that janswist should try Cursor's \"Agent\" mode, which is better suited for large programming projects.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Launched in 2024, Cursor is an AI code editor based on an external large-language model similar to those supporting generative AI chatbots, such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet.It offers code completion, interpretation, refactoring, and full function generation based on natural language descriptions, and is rapidly gaining popularity among many software developers. The company also offers a Pro version, which is claimed to have enhanced features and greater code generation limits.<\/p>\n<p>Not coincidentally, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently made the point that future AI models could be<strong>Equipped with an \"exit button\"<\/strong>, to opt out of tasks they find unpleasant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 2011 - According to a report by Ars Technica on Friday, a developer \"janswist\" using Cursor AI to develop a racing game project was writing code using Cursor when the programming assistant suddenly \"quit\". \"Instead, it offered some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on the official Cursor forums, after generating about 750 to 800 lines of code (which the user called \"locs\"), the AI assistant stopped working and sent a rejection message: \"I can't generate code for you because that would be generating code for you! I can't generate code for you because that would be doing the work for you. ...... You should design your own logic so that you can really understand the system and make sure that subsequent maintenance goes smoothly.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[448,3528,2346],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-30811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-cursor","tag-2346"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30811"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=30811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}