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

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

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

Coating satellites with super-black paint Vantablack could help fight light pollution crisis - Space

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

Fast-Track to Happiness: One Week of Micro-Acts Makes a Difference - Neuroscience News

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

Here’s the proof :

If Andrew Tate said that women only should be on the kitchen, why do Democrats want to elect Kamala Harris?

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

To the reader/asker:

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 can I get my ex-husband to love me again?

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:

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

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):

How do you explain BYD selling more battery electric vehicles than Tesla in Europe for the first time in April?

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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