AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work." ...

Even when artificial intelligence isn't explicitly taught something, it can still pick up unintended traits when being trained by other AI.

Like so many trolls before, AI is now, apparently, telling people to learn to code when they ask it to write it for them.

O’Reilly online learning platform saw huge spikes in consumption of AI-related content in 2024, while consumption of Python and Java content declined.