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

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

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 should every American know before traveling to the UK?

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

And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

Does the fact that the Ukraine war wasn’t ended in 24 hours like Trump promised mean that he either lied or was too dumb to understand that it is more complicated?

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:

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 //):

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

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

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To the reader/asker:

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

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