I think many people believe that ChatGPT is a black-box designed to simply serve you up code.

You need to know the code basics on your own or it will not be able to help you much.
You describe and detail what you're looking for and the expected results. Then be prepared for it to provide code that is not production ready. That is where you the person comes in and critiques the code and offers suggestions for different methods or ideas. Then you work back and forth with ChatGPT to come to production level code. Be warned though that it is more than annoying at times as the larger and more complex the code gets, the harder it will be to work on it and it will need to post in 3, 4 or more smaller portions of code or it will truncated due to posting limits within the program.