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Intention in Portuguese, Code in English
Community description: How I started talking to Codex CLI in Portuguese while keeping open-source code, documentation, and project conventions in English.
Dev.to | Sep 12, 2026 | Renan Franca
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From English prompts to Portuguese intention I am Brazilian, and my native language is Portuguese. Because most of the projects I contribute to use English as the standard language, using English with the AI felt natural. The code follows the repository language, not the language I used to describe my intention. The repository still has its own language. Do you interact with an AI agent in a language other than English, even when the project itself uses English as its standard language?
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