Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can A...

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):

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.

Why does Rahul Gandhi have so many haters?

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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:

Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?

MSU Taps J Batt As Next Director of Athletics - Michigan State University Athletics

Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?

Here’s the proof :

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

'Whip/Nae Nae' child star pleads guilty but mentally ill, gets 30 years for cousin's death - USA Today

Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?

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):

Mario Kart World tech analysis, including frame rate and resolution - Nintendo Everything

And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:

Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

What are you struggling with in your life? What would you like to have instead?

Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.

To the reader/asker:

Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?

Read also: