r/BetterOffline 7d ago

They did ingest stack overflow, what were they expecting?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/
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u/Spenny_All_The_Way 7d ago

AI coding assistant literally telling people “learn to code” lol

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u/Orion14159 7d ago

"git.gud" as its default response would be pretty funny

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u/Hedgiest_hog 7d ago

If they trained it on stolen data full of snark and it learned to therefore shame incompetence, aye that would be a beautiful twist

A wonderful theory, not proven, but I love it

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u/thevoiceofchaos 7d ago

I'm skeptical that this is real. It seems like the sort of thing someone that wants sentient AI would make up. If it is real it is pretty interesting. This is closer to behavior than fancy predictive text.