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:

Here’s the proof :

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

Has your wife made you a cuckold?

To the reader/asker:

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

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

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

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

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

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I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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

Why should the law care about what I do behind closed doors?

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):

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

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

How did China invent gunpowder but it was the European nations that went out and “conquered the world using firearms”?

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports: