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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: 28.06.2025 08:23

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

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

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

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:

Do you think Christine Lagarde will be headed and will be heading for success in the next French presidential elections starting as soon as 2027?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

To the reader/asker:

Do Americans realize how much goodwill and credibility they've lost in the past two weeks?

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

Here’s the proof :

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):

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

How do police officers feel about the fear they instill into criminals?

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

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

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

Do they have internet in hell? Most people on here seem like damned souls or demons.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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