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

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

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

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

Is Twilight appropriate for a 12-year-old?

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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:

I have BPD. Why do I destroy everyone I love?

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

To the reader/asker:

Here’s the proof :

Why do you think most harem anime and manga have lame male protagonists that would be considered losers and pathetic by most people?

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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):

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

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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.

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

How far back into your childhood can your remember and what is your favorite memory of that time?

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.