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 let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
What species of fish are horse mackerels?
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
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):
What does the stink of the skunk look like? Why would it be dangerous?
You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
Here’s the proof :
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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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:
To the reader/asker:
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
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I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?