Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 28.06.2025 08:14

Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Why am I so afraid that gun owners have set traps to kill me outside my house or my car?
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
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):
To the reader/asker:
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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:
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
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Here’s the proof :
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.