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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:
As usual, I’ll make my point backed by verifiable examples.
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To the reader/asker:
I don’t think so Claudeboy.
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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And let’s use the latest, extra-capable model 4.1 from OpenAPI. The result:
Let’s use the agent to see if it can search at least, when it doesn’t know?
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):
Is there an MBTI personality that is more or less likely to handle stress?
Agent, are you sure???? You’re lying again, aren’t you?
Ah. Claude Claude Claude.
And ever so dutifully, Claude reports:
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Re——-aaaaalllllly.
Your software developer job is safe for at least the next 100 years.
Claude boy, how do I do division and modulus in OCaml?
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Here’s the proof :
Now, let’s think about that for a second or two. Such an elementary matter and such egregious error of omission!