As long as the program works, it may not matter. What will matter is the clarity of the logic when someone else has to modify the code later on.

As Ars Technica reports, someone who used the programming assistant Cursor claims that the software refused to continue spitting out code — and instead gave them a patronizing career recommendation.

Typically, the generation of programming code starts off with planning (i.e., structuring the overall logic of code), followed by the coding process and de-bugging (i.e., fixing errors in the code).

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 ...

Program code written without a coherent structure. The program logic moves from routine to routine without returning to a base point, making it hard to follow. Spaghetti code implies excessive use ...

But maybe getting an AI that could program would be a useful interim step, since code involves lots of math and logic. At minimum, it would be a powerful new product for OpenAI to unleash on the ...