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Working with the AI

The AI chat on the right is not a generic chatbot - it has access to the same toolset you do (add agent type, add rule, set parameter, run setup, tick, etc.) and applies changes through the same change-log. Watching it work is a good way to learn the system.

Good prompts

• Be specific about behaviour, not syntax. "Make the sheep wander

randomly and lose energy each tick" works better than "write me a random-walk function".

• Ask for one thing at a time. You'll get a faster, more reviewable

result.

• Iterate. "Now add wolves that chase the nearest sheep." "Now plot

the populations." You can build a model piece by piece.

Things to ask the AI to do

• "Build me a flocking model with 30 boids."
• "Set sheep_repro to 0.10 and run 50 ticks. What's the sheep_count?"
• "Switch to Game of Life."
• "Why does the wolf population crash so fast?"

Things to do yourself instead

• Fine-tuning of slider defaults - quicker by hand.
• Choosing which plot to show - the AI can't see your plot.
• Renaming things for clarity - go straight to the navigator.