On 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 ...

AI-powered code generation tools like GitHub Copilot, CodiumAI Codiumate, and Amazon CodeWhisperer have already revolutionized the way developers write code. These tools speed up programming and ...

Generating code: Generative AI can turn natural language instructions into functioning code, which essentially turns English (or whatever your native tongue is) into a computer programming language.

— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) March 13, 2025 Coding AI assistant Cursor allegedly refused a user command to write code and recommended learning programming instead.