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

To the reader/asker:

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

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

Do you think Taylor Swift will pay a price in the marketplace for endorsing Democrats?

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

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

Here’s the proof :

How likely do TWS earbuds explode these days? I'm still using wired earbud because I'm paranoid.

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

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):

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Is there a type of function where every point has exactly one tangent line passing through it? If yes, what is this type of function called?

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Wall Street warns Trump aides the GOP tax bill could jolt bond markets - The Washington Post

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

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

How did Farrah Fawcett die?

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

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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