Can machine learning and AI make programmers obsolete? Can AI make software coding and debugging a thing of the past?
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Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
To the reader/asker:
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 presto goes Claude, the clueless junior-dev (it also botched correctly showing //):
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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):
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
Why did Britain steal Gibraltar from Spain?
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 let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
Sunnova Announces Strategic Action to Facilitate Value-Maximizing Sale Process - Business Wire
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
Here’s the proof :
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?