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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?

Have you ever lied to your family? What were the circumstances?

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

Here’s the proof :

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:

Have you ever heard of the god Priapus being the same as the god Phosphorus?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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:

How did the use of cows change in Indian culture over time? Is the value of cattle still important in modern times?

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

Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.

You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):

Eum sit quibusdam aperiam culpa ipsa culpa odio.

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):

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

To the reader/asker:

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

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