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

To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):

Here’s the proof :

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

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

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

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

Do any members of BTS have significant others in real life? If so, why do they choose not to discuss it publicly?

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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):

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

Can you explain the concept of an annulment of marriage in the Roman Catholic Church and its effects on a previous marriage?

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

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:

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

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