An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself The old “teach a man to fish” proverb, but for AI chatbots.

Here again, folks were holding up the AI's code to a different standard than even human coders. I'm a good programmer, but my code has bugs. It's not the best it can be…at least not at first.

In fact, writing code may take up as little as 20% of their time, with the rest spent on gathering requirements, testing, meetings, collaborating with users, overseeing projects and other tasks.