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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think part of this comes down to the format. Physics can often be analogized and can be very conversational when it comes to demonstrating ideas.

Most code also looks pretty similar if you don’t know how to read it and unlike language, the syntax is absolute with no room for interpretation or translation.

I’ve found it’s consistently good if you treat it like a project specification list, including all of your requirements in a list format in the very first message and have it psuedocode the draft along with list what libraries it wants to use and make sure they work how you expect.

There’s some screening that goes into utilizing it well and that only comes with already knowing roughly how to code what you’re trying to make.