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

Last Updated: 23.06.2025 06:46

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Here’s the proof :

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

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

What are the reasons for your political affiliation with the Democratic party? What are some aspects of the party that you support and some that you do not?

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:

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!

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

To the reader/asker:

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

Why is my ex still keeping in touch with me even though she dumped me?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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?

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You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):

I don’t think so Claudeboy.