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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

To the reader/asker:

What is the lowest probability event you have personally witnessed?

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 ask Claude Sonnet 3.5, which is quite the advanced model (at par with Deepseek V3 R1 and GPT 4o) a very simple question:

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

Trump is shot, tackled by SS agents, yet then stands, defiant, with fist high, and 52 hours later, walks into the Republican Convention to thunderous applause. Is there anything that can stop this man, who loves his country? Does he get your vote?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Supernovas may have triggered life-threatening changes in ancient Earth's climate. Scientists say it could happen again - Space

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

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

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

Why can't NASA just bite the bullet and launch a plainly simple mission, audited by flat earther peers start to finish that definitively proves to even the smallest minds that the earth is an oblong spheroid, and not flat?

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

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

Here’s the proof :

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, shuts down to sound the alarm on mass tourism - PBS

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

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