Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
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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:
Here’s the proof :
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
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Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
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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!
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
What questions would you ask to an AI?
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
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You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
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):
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result: