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

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Re——-aaaaalllllly.

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

Here’s the proof :

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

What are some alternative ways to express gratitude or acknowledge thanks in English or French without using the phrases "thank you" or "you're welcome"?

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

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:

13 million years ago, this object released as much energy as a billion suns in a fraction of a second! - Farmingdale Observer

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

To the reader/asker:

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

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?

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