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

To the reader/asker:

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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

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

Can the United States threaten the UK with destroying its economy to force it into anything, just like what happened in the Suez Crisis?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

What is your prediction for the future of our society? How long do you think it will take for us to address and fix current issues?

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

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):

Do guys ever want to suck a dick even though they are straight?

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:

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

What software development tools does Microsoft offer for C# and .NET Core platform? Do they include CLI or GUI options?

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

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

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

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