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

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

What actor accepted a film expecting to go unnoticed, only to find himself at the forefront of a gigantic success that transformed his career?

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):

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 let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:

Why do Muslims invade Western society?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

To the reader/asker:

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

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Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?

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:

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Autem nesciunt sint et reprehenderit non fuga beatae et.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

Here’s the proof :

How did you become popular in school?

Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!

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

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

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