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

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:

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

How do you envision the role of AI in software development evolving in the future?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

What are the basic human needs according to psychology? What are the consequences of not meeting these needs?

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 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):

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Why do people say "tall, dark, and handsome" when they actually mean "tall, white, and handsome"?

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

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

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

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

Here’s the proof :

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

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