AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

Whenever I'm prompting LLM for this kind of thing I find myself wishing there was a BASIC style protocol that we could use to instruct LLMs. Numbered statements, GOTOs to jump around, standardized like MCP or A2A such that all LLMs are trained to understand and verified to follow the logic.

Why BASIC? It's a lot harder to mix English and structured programming concepts. Plus it's nice if you forget a step between 20 and 30 you can just say `25 print 'halfway'` from the chat.

I've had successful chats with ChatGPT that uses Python as pseudocode.

I specifically mean pseudocode intended to clarify and communicate - as opposed to be run by a computer.

E.g.: https://chatgpt.com/share/67f9fee9-07dc-8003-a272-ca05d91282...