Coding AI assistant Cursor allegedly refused a user command to write code and recommended learning programming instead. User “janswist” said on the Cursor forum page that the app displayed this error message after producing 750 to 800 lines of code or “locs”: READ: Why learning to code is not the way to Web 3.

According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you,

The algorithms fueling AI models aren't sentient and don't get tired or annoyed. That's why it was something of a shock for one developer when AI-powered code editor Cursor AI told him it was quitting and that he should learn to write and edit the code himself.