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Last Updated: 02.07.2025 17:34

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