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I'm using it 50% English (personal projects)/50% Polish (workplace; reasons being agents.md / team is not that english proficient) and honestly I haven't seen much difference in the output/ambiguity.

Polish prompts tend to be shorter due to the language having a lot of verb forms/conjugations, the only "bad" thing for me is that when it's saying "it broke" it tends to use uncanny / blunt words that make me sometimes laugh.

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Interesting. Some questions: Would you say polish is more dense or less dense than english? It's interesting to hear that code quality is not suffering but the response text is sillier or blunter. Any other descrepenacies compared to English?

I would say it certainly can be more dense but even if it's more dense, the tokenizers count it as more. Last time I checked in OpenAI tokenizer for my agents.md it ate 30/40%~ more tokens than the English version at roughly 1:1 meaning.

Same here, been using 50% English and 50% Spanish for months, no particular reason, just whatever feels easier at the moment. Sometimes I even switch languages in the middle of a session. I have not noticed a difference in the quality of the output.

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