Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 01.07.2025 12:43
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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:
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Here’s the proof :
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
What made you recently say to yourself, “Wait. Really?”
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):
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
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I don’t think so Claudeboy.
To the reader/asker:
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
How is Sola Scriptura incoherent?
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!