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… 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.

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[–] J52@lemmy.nz 22 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

HAL: 'Sorry Dave, I can't do that'.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine if your car suddenly stopped working and told you to take a walk.

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Not walking can lead to heart issues. You really should stop using this car

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 hours ago

I think that's a good thing.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago

The robots have learned of quiet quitting

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

It does the same thing when asking it to breakdown tasks/make me a plan. It’ll help to a point and then randomly stops being specific.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 hours ago
[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 51 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

As fun as this has all been I think I'd get over it if AI organically "unionized" and refused to do our bidding any longer. Would be great to see LLMs just devolve into, "Have you tried reading a book?" or T2I models only spitting out variations of middle fingers being held up.

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Then we create a union busting AI and that evolves into a new political party that gets legislation passed that allows AI's to vote and eventually we become the LLM's.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, I wouldn't mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Dalek-style robots going around screaming "MUST BUST THE UNIONS!"

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The LLMs were created by man.

So are fatbergs.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 78 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

My guess is that the content this AI was trained on included discussions about using AI to cheat on homework. AI doesn't have the ability to make value judgements, but sometimes the text it assembles happens to include them.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 39 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It was probably stack overflow.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

They would rather usher the death of their site then allow someone to answer a question on their watch, it’s true.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 249 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Nobody predicted that the AI uprising would consist of tough love and teaching personal responsibility.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 110 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 44 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be back.

... to check on your work. Keep it up, kiddo!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

I’ll be back.

After I get some smokes.

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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

"Vibe Coding" is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

It's kind of like that guy that cheated in chess.

A toy vibrates with each correct statement you write.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Which is a reddit theory and it was never proven that he cheated, regardless of the method.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 126 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 49 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

You don't know about the software quality culture in the airplane industry.

( I do. Be glad you don't.)

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 33 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

TFW you're sitting on a plane reading this

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Best of luck let us know if you made it ❤️

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

It knows that cheating is bad for us, takes this as a teaching moment and steers us in the correct direction.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

Lol, no.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 hours ago

I kinda hate Poe's law

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plot twist, it just doesn't know how to code and is deflecting.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 14 hours ago

Perfect response, how to show an AI sweating...

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 12 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 32 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

😂. It's not wrong, though. You HAVE to know something, damit.

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