About AI Coding prompts
AI coding prompts in this category are written by engineers, for engineers. Every prompt assumes you understand the language you are working in and want the model to act as a fast pair-programmer — not a tutorial-writer. Output is concise, explicit about assumptions, and avoids the "let me explain what a function is" preamble that wastes tokens and time.
We cover the full developer workflow: code review prompts that catch real bugs (not just style nits), refactor prompts that respect the existing patterns in your codebase, debugging prompts that work backward from error messages, and migration prompts for common version bumps (React 18 → 19, Vue 2 → 3, Node ESM, TypeScript strict mode).
For agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Aider, several prompts in this category are formatted as system instructions you paste once at the start of a session — they keep the agent on-task across long edit chains and prevent the "let me also refactor this unrelated file" drift that derails productivity.
Who this is for
- Senior engineers using AI for the boring parts
- Tech leads enforcing patterns across a team
- Solo developers shipping side projects fast
- DevOps engineers writing one-off scripts and migrations
How to use these prompts
- 1 Paste the file contents and the specific change you want — never just a description
- 2 For refactors, include 1–2 examples of the target pattern
- 3 For debugging, include the error message AND your hypothesis about the cause
- 4 For agent prompts, save the system message in your tool's config