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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

Here’s the proof :

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

Why did VP Vance decide to humiliate the President of Ukraine on national TV?

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

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

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:

How do I cancel WFG Life insurance?

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

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

To the reader/asker:

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I don’t think so Claudeboy.

You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):

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

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