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

To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

How do you trump Trump’s executive order to bring back plastic straws?

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

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

Here’s the proof :

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

Why do some people refuse to explain their actions or behavior when asked? Why do they claim to not know the reason instead of providing an explanation?

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

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):

Andrew Tate is against the COVID vaccine, but what about the vaccines for children for certain diseases?

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

Is it possible to use AI to help with interview questions?

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!