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

To the reader/asker:

Here’s the proof :

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

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

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

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

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

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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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 would you spank me if I had been sent home from a school camp because of my poor behavior?

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!

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Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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