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

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

I have the power to talk to aliens through using telepathy. Why do people think I'm crazy?

To the reader/asker:

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

Here’s the proof :

What symptoms did you notice before being diagnosed with cancer?

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):

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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:

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

What is the hidden meaning behind 'Skibidi Ohio', and why is it trending?

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

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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