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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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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):

Here’s the proof :

Do you think AI language models like Claude AI will ever be able to truly match someone's unique writing style?

To the reader/asker:

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

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:

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

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

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

Is it okay or problematic to be both Black and gay in society in the 21st century?

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

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):

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

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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

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

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