Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 05:15
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
To the reader/asker:
And presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
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You can do modulus with %. In fact, it’s the standard way to do it! (See command 17). And mod is deprecated (command 18):
And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
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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 ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
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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):
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
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Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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!
How has your life changed since starting college?
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.