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

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

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

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

What do you remember that 95% of us have forgotten?

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):

To the reader/asker:

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

According to Amy Schumer, John Cena was actually inside of her during the TrainWreck love scene. I thought that was illegal in Hollywood?

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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:

What are the most shocking facts about the Bollywood industry?

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

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Why do people think Justin Bieber is worse than Joseph Stalin?

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Here’s the proof :

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

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