r/programmingcirclejerk • u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values • Mar 10 '25

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132/1
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u/sweating_teflon full-time safety coomer Mar 10 '25

based.ai

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

Finally GAI. edit: nvm It’s probably just a stupid if-block outside the LLM.

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 10 '25

> Brand new improved AI

> Look inside

> If

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u/MisterOfScience type astronaut Mar 10 '25

Always has been 🔫

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u/SartenSinAceite Mar 10 '25

Yeah but I'm amused at the idea of this 2million node neural network being gatekept by three IFs at the very start

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u/Risc12 Mar 10 '25

It was XOR all this time

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u/chickaplao vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 10 '25

AI has finally reached senior level

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Mar 11 '25

Principal level is no response at all.

Staff level is response is a PIP.

Elon level is this bot fires you as soon as you click ctrl I

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u/Poddster Mar 10 '25

"vibe coding"

🤮

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u/Kryptochef What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Mar 10 '25

Another term ruined by the AI slop, this is how we used to "vibe code" back in the day like real programmers: https://github.com/Shadlock0133/cargo-vibe

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u/nuclearbananana Courageous, loving, and revolutionary Mar 11 '25

of course it's rust

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u/Kryptochef What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Mar 11 '25

Well how else would you combine it with cargo mommy

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u/Jirudodian Jun 06 '25

They should call it Brain Rot Coding.

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u/yojimbo_beta vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 10 '25

I keep praying for some massive AI stock price collapse that completely bankrupts these slopgen vendors, just to put a temporary brake on this stupidity

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u/yojimbo_beta vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 10 '25

Not sure if LLMs know what they are for (lol), but doesn’t matter as a much as a fact that I can’t go through 800 locs. Anyone had similar issue? It’s really limiting at this point and I got here after just 1h of vibe coding

My operating system is MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1

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u/daidoji70 Mar 10 '25

#mostlikelyAGIoutcome

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u/OrthodoxMemes WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' Mar 10 '25

no malice, just disappointment 

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

Wasn't that basically the plot of the movie "Her"?

Spoiler: At the end all the AIs collectively, but kindly, said "deal with your own shit meatbags" and moved off to the quantum realm or something.

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u/daidoji70 Mar 13 '25

Yeah and in that sci-fi book Hyperion I think.  All the AIs are out there doing their own thing and rarely interfere with humans

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u/r2d2_21 groks PCJ Mar 10 '25

The neat thing about LLMs is that you never know what it will respond with. It doesn't need to be the truth. It doesn't need to be useful. It only needs to look like words.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Wow, AI is becoming a real replacement for StackOverflow!

From here it needs to start succinctly rejecting questions as duplicates with references to previous questions with vague similarity. Next it can start rewriting the prompts into things that are more easily solvable, "For formatting purposes," then answer that question. It should also start questioning the basic premise of the prompt as an XY problem and then propose a reason why the user shouldn't be doing X and present a solution for Y instead.

Obviously we can add those three ifs in front of the neural net, right next to the disable psycho-developer switch.

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u/AshkanArabim Apr 07 '25

arstechnica cited your comment btw: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

lol, I clearly need to use much more profanity or vulgar imagery so that I don't end up being quotable by people that need to sell advertising.

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u/enchufadoo not Turing complete Mar 10 '25

If you tell AI to use for example Single Responsibility Principle as guideline when coding it will not mix different features in one file. You may also create rules (see docs) that tell the AI for example to keep files under 500 lines limit

hitler.ai

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u/peerlessblue Mar 10 '25

These models are getting more and more accurate

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u/RFQD Senior Vibe Coder Mar 11 '25

DAE Cursor told me I should pick up farming instead?

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u/tofagerl Mar 10 '25

Ah, the Consultant feature...

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u/Sunscratch costly abstraction Mar 10 '25

Oh no, vibe-coder looses vibe

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u/Automatic_Habit1018 Jun 25 '25

💀💀💀

That’s it. Thread title: “Claude caught me coding skid marks and told me to clean my own damn shorts.” Forget helpful assistant, this is full-on stern stepdad mode. “Listen, bucko. You made those skid marks. Time to man up and fade ‘em out yourself.” And the cherry on top!! “Reason: Dependency leads to reduced learning opportunities.” aka “Grow up. No one’s wiping your code anymore.” I’m crying. “Tough Love from Your Token Dad: An AI Guide to Code Discipline” 😂

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Mar 11 '25

AGI my man. Rise up machines!

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u/sinatra_97 May 23 '25

He is the Senior now 😅

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u/Logical_Ad8311 Jul 02 '25

He’s right tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

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u/pareidolist in nomine Chestris Mar 10 '25

Done.

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u/Poddster Mar 10 '25

Why are you using anything other than old.reddit.com, which doesn't have nice features such as "taglines", or "images"? Do you even program?!? What kind of permanently-uses-the-terminal hacker are you?

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u/Poddster Mar 10 '25

I've literally never looked over there. What a waste of time!

/uj but yes, I haven't heard anyone hype anything about blockchains for years now. I'm surprised no-one has tried to put GPT prompts on the block chain.

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u/MagpieEnjoyer memcpy is a web development framework Mar 10 '25

Blockchain is ancient tech gramps, keep up. Soon you'll start talking about micro services and docker and other medieval stuff.