Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 26.06.2025 23:47
Here’s the proof :
And hey Claude? There’s a reserved float division /. if both numbers are floats, for sure (19) but so can one use // even though both are integers (20):
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Why would a person always be so tired?
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
Let’s ask Claude Sonnet 3.5, which is quite the advanced model (at par with Deepseek V3 R1 and GPT 4o) a very simple question:
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
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Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Don't you think Israel is and always has been the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East?
To the reader/asker:
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!