Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 03.07.2025 04:12
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
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:
How terrible are we at making future predictions of like technology?
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?
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
To the reader/asker:
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Re——-aaaaalllllly.
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
Why do men like low maintenance women?
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
Here’s the proof :
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):
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Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):