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Prompts

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Review The Diff

Use this after an AI-generated change lands so the reviewer focuses on correctness, security, edge cases, and misleading tests.

Working With AI Tools · Review

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The Build-Review-Verify Loop

Master the core AI-agent workflow: set a goal, make one reviewable change, verify it, and iterate only while you still understand the work.

Working With AI Tools · Working With AI Tools

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Frontend vs Backend — What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?

Understand the two halves of every web application using a restaurant analogy that makes it click.

Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders · Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders

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Safe Agent Loop

Use this before implementation work when you want the agent to set one goal, explain the plan, verify the result, and stop after one reviewable change.

Start Here — Build Safely With AI · Safety

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Programming Languages — Which Ones Exist and Why There Are So Many

A friendly tour of the programming language landscape — why so many exist and which ones matter for AI-assisted builders.

Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders · Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders

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The Anti-Patterns — Prompts That Produce Bad Code

Recognize and avoid the most common prompting mistakes that lead to buggy, bloated, or wrong code.

Working With AI Tools · Working With AI Tools

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Go — The Cloud Native Language

Understand Go's role in modern infrastructure — simplicity, concurrency, its connection to Docker and Kubernetes, and why it's the language of cloud tooling.

Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders · Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders

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HTML and CSS — The Building Blocks Every Builder Should Recognize

Understand how HTML provides structure and CSS provides style — the visual foundation of every web page.

Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders · Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders

Prompt Packs

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Prompt Pack

Review and debug

Prompts for tightening requests, reviewing diffs, verifying fixes, and debugging without letting the agent thrash or loop blindly.

23 prompts · Featured: Review The Diff

Prompt Pack

Run your first Claude or agent session

Prompts for a first Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor session so the agent sets a goal, explains scope, justifies tools or loops, verifies the result, and stops after one safe first move.

4 prompts · Featured: Safe Agent Loop

Prompt Pack

Start safely

Prompts for scoping work, protecting secrets, and making the agent stop after one reviewable step.

7 prompts · Featured: Pre-Flight Secrets Check

Prompt Pack

Get to production safely

Prompts for turning a promising AI-built demo into something you can share, test, deploy, sell, and improve without pretending it is production-ready too early.

4 prompts · Featured: The First Production Stack — Domains, Auth, Data, Logs, and Payments

Prompt Pack

Protect your work

Prompts for Git, checkpoints, backups, and version-control habits before you let the agent touch more files.

5 prompts · Featured: Don't Lose Your Work — Folders, Git, and Checkpoints

Prompt Pack

Think in systems

Prompts that push the agent toward architecture, tradeoffs, and production-safe structure instead of surface fixes.

7 prompts · Featured: Choosing Your Tech Stack — A Decision Framework

Prompt Pack

Write better prompts

Prompts for tightening vague requests, decomposing big ideas, using reasoning plans, teaching patterns with examples, and avoiding prompting anti-patterns.

6 prompts · Featured: The Anti-Patterns — Prompts That Produce Bad Code

Learning Paths

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Articles

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Article

Prompt of the Day: Configure Preview Deployments on Vercel

Every pull request deserves a live, isolated environment wired to test services -- not production. This prompt gives your AI coding tool everything it needs to configure Vercel preview deployments end-to-end: scoped environment variables, branch-based preview rules, a GitHub PR comment bot, and CORS and auth redirect handling for dynamic preview URLs.

Track: prompts · Apr 7, 2026

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Code Review Basics: What to Look for Before Deploy

AI can write 200 lines of functional code in 30 seconds — but Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report found that 45% of those lines fail basic security tests. Here's the practical review workflow that catches what AI misses before it hits production.

Track: security · Apr 4, 2026

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Preview Deployments: Test Before You Break Production

Every deploy to production is a bet. Preview deployments let you run that bet in a safe environment first — but only if you set them up right. Here's how to build a preview deployment workflow that actually catches problems before they reach your users.

Track: production · Mar 29, 2026

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Prompt of the Day: Refactor a 200-Line Component into Smaller Pieces

AI assistants love to dump 200 lines into a single component. Here's the exact prompt to break that monolith apart—and why getting this right is the difference between code you can maintain and code you'll dread opening.

Track: prompts · Mar 19, 2026

Article

Prompt of the Day: Build a Tip Button Component with Stripe

Most Stripe tutorials show you how to charge a fixed price. Tips are different — the amount is unknown until the user picks it. Here's the exact prompt that gets an AI coding assistant to build a production-ready tip button, plus the anti-pattern that causes a split-brain nightmare in your database.

Track: prompts · Mar 26, 2026

Article

Prompt of the Day: Create a Secure Authentication Flow with Clerk

In March 2025, a critical Next.js vulnerability let attackers bypass middleware auth entirely with a single HTTP header. Here's the exact prompt that builds a Clerk auth flow that would have survived it—and why most vibe-coded auth setups wouldn't.

Track: prompts · Mar 20, 2026

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Prompt of the Day: Extract a Custom Hook from Repeated Logic

Your AI just generated the same fetch-loading-error pattern in five different components. It works. It's a mess. Here's the prompt that turns that duplicated noise into a single, reusable custom hook — and the anti-pattern that keeps your codebase drowning in copy-paste debt.

Track: prompts · Mar 31, 2026

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Authentication Flows with Clerk That Scale

Clerk gets you authenticated in 30 minutes. But what happens at 50,000 users, when your JWT cookies are bloating past 4KB, webhooks arrive out of order, and your database thinks a user exists that Clerk has already deleted? Here's the architectural decision framework to build auth that holds up.

Track: architecture · Apr 4, 2026