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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Here’s the proof :

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

Why do you think Islam oppresses women when Christianity clearly does it more?

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 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):

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

What is the story of how you met your spouse?

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

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

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

When I buy a house, do I automatically own all items the previous owner failed to remove from the property?

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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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!

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

Eum et amet quam est autem adipisci distinctio.

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

To the reader/asker: