Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 03.07.2025 00:18
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):
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:
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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
How many girls or guys keep extra pantyhose in their glove box or console of their vehicle?
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Why don't I get sleep at nights?
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
To the reader/asker:
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
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Here’s the proof :
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.