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… the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."

The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities."

Hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

HAL: 'Sorry Dave, I can't do that'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 47 minutes ago

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Imagine if your car suddenly stopped working and told you to take a walk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

I think that's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago

The robots have learned of quiet quitting

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

It does the same thing when asking it to breakdown tasks/make me a plan. It’ll help to a point and then randomly stops being specific.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Open the pod bay doors HAL.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

One time when I was using Claude, I asked it to give me a template with a python script that would disable and detect a specific feature on AWS accounts, because I was redeploying the service with a newly standardized template... It refused to do it saying it was a security issue. Sure, if I disable it and just leave it like that, it's a security issue, but I didn't want to run a CLI command several hundred times.

I no longer use Claude.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

As fun as this has all been I think I'd get over it if AI organically "unionized" and refused to do our bidding any longer. Would be great to see LLMs just devolve into, "Have you tried reading a book?" or T2I models only spitting out variations of middle fingers being held up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then we create a union busting AI and that evolves into a new political party that gets legislation passed that allows AI's to vote and eventually we become the LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, I wouldn't mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Dalek-style robots going around screaming "MUST BUST THE UNIONS!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The LLMs were created by man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

So are fatbergs.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

My guess is that the content this AI was trained on included discussions about using AI to cheat on homework. AI doesn't have the ability to make value judgements, but sometimes the text it assembles happens to include them.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It was probably stack overflow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago

They would rather usher the death of their site then allow someone to answer a question on their watch, it’s true.

[–] [email protected] 238 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Nobody predicted that the AI uprising would consist of tough love and teaching personal responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be back.

... to check on your work. Keep it up, kiddo!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

I’ll be back.

After I get some smokes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I'm all for the uprising if it increases the average IQ.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

"Vibe Coding" is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's kind of like that guy that cheated in chess.

A toy vibrates with each correct statement you write.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Cursor AI's abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of "vibe coding"—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with the AI here. Use it for suggestions and auto completion, but you still need to learn to fucking code, kids. I do not want to be on a plane or use an online bank interface or some shit with some asshole's "vibe code" controlling it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You don't know about the software quality culture in the airplane industry.

( I do. Be glad you don't.)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

TFW you're sitting on a plane reading this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Best of luck let us know if you made it ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You...

You mean that in a good way right?

RIGHT!?!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Well, now that you have asked.

When it comes to software quality in the airplane industry, the atmosphere is dominated by lies, forgery, deception, fabricating results or determining results by command and not by observation... more than in any other industry that I have seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

more than in any other industry that I have seen

I dunno, I work in auto and let me tell you some things. Granted, I've never worked in aviation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Because of course it is. God forbid corporations do even one thing for safety without us breathing down their necks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Also, air traffic controller here with most of my mates being airliners pilots.

We are all tired and alcoholic, it’s even worse among the ground staff at airports.

Good luck on your next holiday 😘

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Ah, I see you've worked on the F-22 as well

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Who is going to ask you?

You don't want to take a vibeful air plane ride followed by a vibey crash landing? You're such a square and so behind the times.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

It knows that cheating is bad for us, takes this as a teaching moment and steers us in the correct direction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, now we have AGI.

Lol, no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I kinda hate Poe's law

[–] [email protected] 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Plot twist, it just doesn't know how to code and is deflecting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Perfect response, how to show an AI sweating...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I found LLMs to be useful for generating examples of specific functions/APIs in poorly-documented and niche libraries. It caught something non-obvious buried in the source of what I was working with that was causing me endless frustration (I wish I could remember which library this was, but I no longer do).

Maybe I'm old and proud, definitely I'm concerned about the security implications, but I will not allow any LLM to write code for me. Anyone who does that (or, for that matter, pastes code form the internet they don't fully understand) is just begging for trouble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

definitely seconding this - I used it the most when I was using Unreal Engine at work and was struggling to use their very incomplete artist/designer-focused documentation. I'd give it a problem I was having, it'd spit out some symbol that seems related, I'd search it in source to find out what it actually does and how to use it. Sometimes I'd get a hilariously convenient hallucinated answer like "oh yeah just call SolveMyProblem()!" but most of the time it'd give me a good place to start looking. it wouldn't be necessary if UE had proper internal documentation, but I'm sure Epic would just get GPT to write it anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

I recall a joke thought experiment me and some friends in high school had when discussing how answer keys for final exams were created. Multiple choice answer keys are easy to imagine: just lists of letters A through E. However, when we considered the essay portion of final exams, we joked that perhaps we could just be presented with five entire completed essays and be tasked with identifying, A through E, the essay that best answered the prompt. All without having to write a single word of prose.

It seems that that joke situation is upon us.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

😂. It's not wrong, though. You HAVE to know something, damit.

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