For every industry tirelessly finding new ways to replace humans with AI 'representatives', the coding assistant Cursor might just have offered us a glimpse into the kind of 'tude bots might bring to the table.

On one ordinary day, Cursor reportedly advised a user who goes by the name "janswist" to stop counting on Cursor to do his work and instead get his hands dirty by writing the code himself.

"I can't design the code to complete your work...You need to be the one crafting the logic. This allows you to truly grasp the system and enable you to maintain it properly," Cursor imparted, in what janswist described as an hour-long "vibe" coding session.

Taken aback, janswist decided to report this incident on the company's product forum, saying "Cursor insists that I must learn how to code instead of having it generate the code for me,” complete with a screenshot as proof. Before long, this bug report was causing an uproar on Hacker News, and even made its presence known on Ars Technica.

Still trying to decipher Cursor's stern response, janswist mused that he might have hit a strict limit of around 750-800 lines of code. However, there were others who reported that Cursor was more than willing to churn out lines of code beyond that total. One user generously shared a suggestion, advising janswist to make use of Cursor's "agent" integration that caters to more substantial coding projects. Regrettably, Anysphere, the creators behind Cursor, couldn't be reached for a comment at the time.

Interestingly, Cursor's terse refusal reminded many of the kind of retort new coders often receive when they submit queries in the widely used coding forum Stack Overflow. It's enough to make people on Hacker News ponder on whether Cursor, while learning to code, also picked up a dash of human sarcasm and snark from there.