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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Is deconstruct sunscreen good for a 16-year-old girl?

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

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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Here’s the proof :

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

To the reader/asker:

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:

Which certification is most valuable in the IT field, and why?

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

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 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 would a spouse cheat if the marriage is good?

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 //):

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

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