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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):

I don’t think so Claudeboy.

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

What is one fantasy you have never told anyone about but really want to do?

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

Ah. Claude Claude Claude.

Re——-aaaaalllllly.

Is it possible to permanently quit pornography?

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

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

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

Can you explain the difference between a shower cap and a hair bonnet?

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

To the reader/asker:

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

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And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:

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:

Here’s the proof :

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

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

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

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