Really good. I’ve struggled with the same thing.

> Instead of expecting it to understand my requests, I almost always build tooling first to give us a shared language to discuss the project.

This is probably the key. I’ve found this to be true in general. Building simple tools that the model can use help frame the problem in a very useful way.

gemini on the otherhand, isnt half bad.

all i wanted was some opinions on if my bad idea would work, but it instead wrote me files for making my own sony earphones in 3ish parts.

and when i sewed it together, it worked!

that said, it did have full access to a mini CAD app, but i think it wrote all its own calculations inline