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“On Saturday, a #developer using #CursorAI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the #programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career #advice.

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, 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."

#LLM <arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai->

Illustration: An AI chatbot assistant holds a No Sign on a smartphone screen
Ars Technica · AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming insteadBy Benj Edwards

@smallcircles Please add “input” to this Do Not Use list. When we do work, and we seek to include other people‘s #values and #ideas and #opinions and #creativity and #foresight and #intuition, let’s not call that response “adding input” to a system process. I don’t want your “input” on my ideas in this post. I seek to #understand your #thoughts and #feelings and #experiences and history and #aspirations and #expressions of #beingness. For #dialogue, let’s allow a #GhostInTheMachine. #animism

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@Pineywoozle @palin @dangillmor

I tried #summarizing that #sentiment in a #format I thought most would be able to #understand a #comic

My #band would have #printed copies of it available at every #concert for attendees to take home for #FREE

Then, around 5 years in, some #anonymous #critic ripped out the last page from one to #write that we needed a #chickSinger to "make it" and left it on a table for us to find.

What's the saying? Can lead a #horse to #water ??

The #smilingorange

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@heidilifeldman {bmel.de › SharedDocs › Pressemitteilungen › DE › 2024 › 098-nutzhanf.html
#Bundesregierung beschließt #Liberalisierung von #Nutzhanf
25. Sept. 2024 Das #Bundeskabinett hat heute den von #Bundesminister für #Ernährung und #Landwirtschaft, Cem #Özdemir, vorgelegten Gesetzentwurf beschlossen. ...} #KamalaHarris 👯 do it #USA #please #HanfAufDieFelderRettetDieWälder #Cannabis #Weedmob #Germany #Coldplay sing it please #humankind #understand it please #Klimaschutz 👍

@davidgerard and Amy Castor's #PivotToAI site just posted this:

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/06/llm

It references some tests by Diz on what AI "understands":

awful.systems/post/1769506

After one block of #AI #bullshit, Diz writes: "To be fair to the poor AI, ..."

I find that phrase really helpful.

These #chatbots are hopelessly unqualified minions being forced by their overlords to do stuff they don't and can't #understand.

We should express pity when we talk about them.

#OpenAI would like that.

Pivot to AI · LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answerAI companies keep claiming that LLMs do reasoning. The AI can think! The AI can figure out word puzzles! The AI can pass the LSAT! You’re fired! So our good friend Diz tested this by throwing logic…