Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

Satire of “AI Everywhere” in Products and Management

• Library is framed as a perfect way to “add AI” to appease management, then quietly remove it later while boasting about “performance and cost savings.”
• Many comments parody resume/roadmap inflation: turning “check if number is even” into a “Next-Gen Parity Classifier” with deep intelligence, guardrails, and reasoning models.
• People joke about using it to market any app as AI-powered, and demand AI versions of trivial tools (leftpad, echo, cat).

Overengineering, RAG, and Infra Parody

• Thread mocks stacking “serious” AI infrastructure on a trivial task: GPT-4o-mini upgrades, RAG over all 32‑bit integers, LanceDB embeddings, agentic systems, quantization, and horizontally sharded databases of even/odd numbers.
• There’s meta-joking about building SaaS, blockchain, smart contracts, MCP servers, and VC-backed startups around evenness checks, with exaggerated valuations and “10x engineer” language.
• People extend the joke with type checking, parity APIs, and a programming-by-example language that “compiles” an is_even function.

LLM Accuracy, Determinism, and Limits

• Several comments point out that LLMs are known to be unreliable for deterministic math; someone shows a concrete failure case on a very large integer.
• Explanations focus on tokenization quirks and lack of numeric reasoning; others suggest guardrails: verify the model’s answer with n % 2 and retry if it disagrees.
• There’s explicit disagreement: some claim “this is how math will be done soon,” others insist LLMs can’t handle rigorous proofs and that math benchmarks are likely overfit.

Developers, Juniors vs Seniors, and Labor Economics

• One subthread likens the library to a junior developer whose work must be checked, but who can still boost productivity.
• A more serious debate emerges: one side claims companies will increasingly hire cheaper juniors using AI instead of seniors; the other argues senior devs plus AI will outperform many juniors plus AI.
• This spirals into a blunt discussion of using AI to cut labor costs, not share gains with workers, and broader resentment over wealth inequality and “just start a business” attitudes.

Meta-Humor and Broader Commentary

• Many puns and callbacks (isOdd, isVeryEven, isEvenSteven, “I can’t even / that’s odd”) underline the absurdity.
• Some see the whole thing as a mirror of modern software: massive infra, hype, and AI cycles spent on problems a single modulo operator already solves.