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 //):

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:

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

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

To the reader/asker:

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

Is it possible to become homeless after being released from jail or prison in the United States?

Here’s the proof :

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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):

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

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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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.