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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

The Planetary Society reissues urgent call to reject disastrous budget proposal for NASA - The Planetary Society

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

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

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

In what ways does Bollywood represent India's culture to the rest of the world through movies, songs, and dance? Is this representation accurate?

To the reader/asker:

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

Here’s the proof :

How do you feel about Donald Trump signing an executive order that says there are only two genders?

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):

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

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

How did Nickelback gain a large fan base despite criticism of their music?

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:

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