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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

Here’s the proof :

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

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):

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

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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 ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

How come Jesus died on Friday and rose on Sunday? That's not 3 days and three nights.

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

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

To the reader/asker:

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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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 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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