Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 08:25
To the reader/asker:
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
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Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
Have you ever accidentally seen your mother-in-law doing something that was private to her?
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):
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:
Why should the law care about what I do behind closed doors?
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
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Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
Here’s the proof :