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

Last Updated: 30.06.2025 07:27

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

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):

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

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

15 Retinol-Rich Foods To Stimulate Collagen - Vogue

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

To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Who's your celebrity crush?

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:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Here’s the proof :

See a vivid green fireball light up the northeastern US (video) - Space

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

Beautiful European women were killed by inquisition but Russia was not Catholic. Is this the reason for a drastic difference explaining why Russian women are the prettiest?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Eum sit quibusdam aperiam culpa ipsa culpa odio.

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

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