Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it + limit of 800 locs

sorry i missed your message, can’t really tell but probably not. I don’t use Cmd+K as much.

Saw this in my SuperPower Daily mail and got interested, because i had similar things with Gemini before. It refuses to write code for me if i ask in Turkish (my main language), but if i write the exact same prompt in English, it starts coding right away :laughing:

Just to add an explanation here, it looks from the screenshot that @janswist hit the Quick Question button / shortcut.

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In this feature, we tell the AI it cannot write any code, and can only reply with a text answer to whatever question the user may ask.

Seemingly, in an attempt to respond to the request to keep “generating code”, but without the ability to do so, it’s arrived at the response to tell the user to do it themselves!

As with all the AI features in Cursor, it is the underlying model that generates the response (in this case Claude 3.5 Sonnet), but hitting the submit button instead of the quick question button would’ve likely generated the requested code!

Yes, this - I didn’t knew then that for code generation Agent is the first choice and Cmd+K is just for minor improvements and/or questions. Still, was funny to see attitude from AI model :laughing:

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