Sometimes I don't know anything (relatively) about the topic and I want to get a foundation so I don't care whether the syntax or the code is valid as long as i

Sometimes I don't know anything (relatively) about the topic and I want to get a foundation so I don't care whether the syntax or the code is valid as long as it points me in the right direction. Other times I know exactly what I want and I just find that instructing LLM specifically what output I expect from it just helps me get there faster.