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

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

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):

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

If sea levels were rising, wouldn't the acreage of coastal salt marshes increase? Are they?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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 doesn't Elon Musk know that going up against the European Union is a losing hand? Microsoft lost, Apple lost, Google lost, Facebook lost, and Amazon is losing when they tried to ignore the EU.

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

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

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

Why are people saying that Trump is fat when he is an athletic 6 foot 3 and 215 pounds?

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

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:

To the reader/asker:

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Here’s the proof :

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