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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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

To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

I can not sleep. what is the problem?

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):

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

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

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:

What is the most interesting question you can ask to get to know someone?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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