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

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

To the reader/asker:

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

Short story writers, what is your favorite character you've created and do they appear in more than one of your works?

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:

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

What makes cars from companies like Dacia or BYD appealing compared to Tesla, especially in Europe?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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!

How does an experienced gay/bi guy handle a bi-courius guy on his first time?

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

What are some ballbusting stories?

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?

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Do you think the constitution and laws should be taught in school?

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

Here’s the proof :