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

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

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):

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

Here’s the proof :

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

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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):

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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To the reader/asker:

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

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:

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I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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