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