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 10:25
To the reader/asker:
Here’s the proof :
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
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:
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
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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):
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):
Does eating bread before bed make you fat? If so, why?
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
How do I rat my boss out for serial cheating on his wife?
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
When did you realize that your childhood was not normal?
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?