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?

Here’s the proof :

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

Trump’s 50% steel tariffs are coming for your next fridge and dishwasher - CNN

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Astronomers discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes - Phys.org

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

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:

Why do men cheat on their wives with someone extremely unattractive?

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

To the reader/asker:

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):

Why do Democrats never produce a good argument for why Trump was a bad president?

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

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:

Why do gun owners feel the need to defend themselves with deadly weapons? Can they not just talk things out like civilized people do?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.