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

Here’s the proof :

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

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

How can I navigate a romantic relationship as a trans person, and what are some common challenges that I might face?

To the reader/asker:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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:

The best Apple deals you can shop ahead of Amazon Prime Day 2025 - The Verge

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

Does centrifugal force teach us about gravity?

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

The Best Dinner to Help You Poop in the A.M., According to a Dietitian - EatingWell

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

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):

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

Read also: