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Featured prompt: The Anti-Patterns — Prompts That Produce Bad Code
Recognize and avoid the most common prompting mistakes that lead to buggy, bloated, or wrong code.
**Use this when a conversation with the agent keeps going sideways:**
"I am going to paste three prompts that produced bad results.
For each prompt:
1. Classify the anti-pattern causing the failure
2. Explain why the prompt created bad code or bad direction
3. Rewrite it into a safer, more specific prompt
4. Add the right constraints, review gates, and stop conditions
Use these anti-pattern labels when relevant:
mega prompt, vague request, implicit standards, error dump,
moving target, trust fall, kitchen sink, outdated assumption.
After the rewrites, give me one reusable rule I should add to my workflow so I stop making the same mistake."