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

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." ...

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

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious ...

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