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." ...

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Learning to code is about a lot more than just programming basics, OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said.

Generative AI is transforming software development by enabling natural language prompts to generate code, reducing the need for traditional programming skills and making English the new coding ...

Some in the industry say AI is good for programming, helping speed up the process. About 60% of 65,000 developers surveyed in May by StackOverflow say they had used AI coding tools this year.

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