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Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

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):

What is truer than that which is true?

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

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

How is it safe to put tape on your mouth at night?

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

Here’s the proof :

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

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I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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

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:

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

To the reader/asker:

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

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