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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Here’s the proof :

To the reader/asker:

DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 1 Release Notes - Slayers Club

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Which Red Sox prospect will be next to draw Roman Anthony-level excitement? - MassLive

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?

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

AI Uncovers Wild Spin of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole - SciTechDaily

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

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

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

Which new book genres have emerged in the past decade?

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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):

Why is Taylor Swift re-recording her albums?

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

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:

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

Read also: