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

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?

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):

Tony Awards: Predicting the Winners Using Just Math - The Hollywood Reporter

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Sarah Snook wins Tony for Best Actress in a play for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ — two years after ‘Succession’ - New York Post

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 presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):

23 People Who Woke Up One Morning Over The Past Week And Kinda Sort-Of Accidentally Ruined Their Entire Year - BuzzFeed

Here’s the proof :

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Keir Starmer calls for Iran to return to negotiating table - BBC

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?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

What exactly is the boundary men should follow while looking at girls so they don't call them perverts?

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!

Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?

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