Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 19:02
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
How has Meghan Markle’s style evolved from her Hollywood days to her life as a Duchess?
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Here’s the proof :
What do the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign ads following Taylor Swift's endorsement mean?
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
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):
Can you write a letter to your first love without mentioning his/her name?
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
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):
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:
Is it harder to become a professor nowadays? If yes, why?
To the reader/asker:
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.