Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 23.06.2025 02:17
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
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 //):
How do I cut off friends that don't contribute to my life?
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Here’s the proof :
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Does centrifugal force teach us about gravity?
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
A spinning universe could crack the mysteries of dark energy and our place in the multiverse - Space
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
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):
Why do people love to live alone in a house?
To the reader/asker:
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?