AI assistants, prompts and results can be a little confusing, but they can get easier to understand the more you use them.

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Hitting Return at the end of the prompt sends the AI on its way. Now, let's look at the result. The leftmost pane shows the AI discussing the change and how it works. The middle pane shows more code.

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