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

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

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

Here’s the proof :

Why are Democrats opposed to restrictions on contraception such as requiring people to be over 18 to buy contraception, banning mail order contraception, and requiring a prescription from a doctor?

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.

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Scientists identify a group of viruses just one mutation away from causing the next pandemic - Times of India

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

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

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

World Aquatics Takes Tough Stance on Enhanced Games - Newser

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

To the reader/asker:

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

New study predicts when the universe will end, scientists claim it is sooner than expected - Earth.com

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

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

Bitcoin bears bet against BTC’s rally, but a short squeeze could follow IF… - AMBCrypto

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

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):