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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

Why are white women dating more black guys than ever?

Here’s the proof :

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

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

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 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):

What is a good alternative to the Nike Zoom Pegasus Turbo for running on asphalt and concrete?

To the reader/asker:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

How do fictional characters like Peter Pan from Once Upon a Time shape adolescents' perceptions of relationships and personal growth?

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

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

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:

Who was the actor least deserving of an Academy Award?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

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

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