Even when I literally ask it for code it will often not give me code and will give me a high level overview or pseudocode until I ask it again for actual code.

It's pretty funny that my second message is often "that doesn't look like any programming language I recognize. I tried running it in Python and got lots of errors".

"My apologies, that message was an explanation of how to solve your problem, not code. I'll provide a concrete example in Python."