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