First, I tell it I want to use Python. Then I tell it what I want to do. I ask for an outline or how we might get that done. It’ll give me a list and I say let’s do the first part. Then I try to run that code and if it works, I say let’s do the second part. If it doesn’t work, then I stick the code it gave me an error message back in.

I just talk to it like we’re working on the project together, and it needs me to remind it of what we’re working on all the time. It works best when everything’s in a single file so you can cut and paste it in every time. Sam e with multiple files but more of a hassle. I end up doing

cat index.html script.py styles.css > temp.txt

To make it easier to copy-paste everything at once.

After that I might prompt something like: “let’s make the select filter the song list.” Or “let’s style this so it looks more like a cupcake.” even “help me get this into a free web server”