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." ...

Coding AI assistant Cursor allegedly refused a user command to write code and recommended learning programming instead.

Academic skepticism and business frustration have triggered past AI winters. This time, both factors are present. But there ...

With vibe-coding, anyone can become a coder. But can they grow into a software engineer?

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 ...

Copy, paste, learn: lessons from code programmers for the AI-enhanced classroom Copying and pasting can be a powerful learning tool, whether it involves mindless copying or mindful reuse.

Now, [Daniel Holden] challenges you to build your own Lisp as a way to learn C programming. It shouldn’t be surprising that LISP is fairly simple.