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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

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

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To the reader/asker:

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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):

Is there any way that I can sign up for multiple newsletters from as many companies as possible at once using a single form?

Here’s the proof :

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

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:

Why do some people dislike rap and hip hop music despite there being poor quality music in every genre?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

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