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

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):

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

Do you share your food easily? With whom, and why?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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To the reader/asker:

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

What are some good suggestions for books? I'm into romance, fantasy and Romantasy.

Here’s the proof :

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

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

Japanese culture: Is it true adult adoption is common in Japan?

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

How did Trump's ear recover 100% from the "two centimeter wound" we were told of two weeks ago?

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

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