Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 29.06.2025 00:04
Here’s the proof :
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
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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And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
Why did the Greek city state never form an empire?
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
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 ended your relationship with your best friend?
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:
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
To the reader/asker:
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:
If Trump were to lose in 2024, would that be the end of his grip on the Republican Party?
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?