You don't need a hundred coding prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.
Reuse the recipe
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
Anchor to one reader
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
Cut before you polish
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.