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

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

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:

Who has gotten cured from a stage 4 breast cancer? The oncologist told her she would never be cured.

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):

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

Why are white women not interested in dating Asian men? Are they not attractive to you at all?

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

Here’s the proof :

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Why does the God of the Bible condemn homosexual acts?

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

How do people who are deaf learn sign language? Is it typically taught by parents at a young age or are there programs available for learning it later in life?

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

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

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

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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!

To the reader/asker:

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

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