Find The Safest Next Step

Use this when your current request feels vague and you want the agent to help shape a safer, sharper implementation prompt before files change.

Working With AI Tools · Prompt Design

How to pick a first project that teaches the workflow without dragging you into complex product and engineering problems.

Start Here — Build Safely With AI · Start Here — Build Safely With AI

Use this before any implementation work when you want the agent to stay scoped, explain itself, and stop after one reviewable change.

Start Here — Build Safely With AI · Safety

How to run a first real AI-assisted build session without letting it spiral into a mystery code dump.

Start Here — Build Safely With AI · Start Here — Build Safely With AI

The minimum safe setup for total beginners: a real project folder, a Git repo, a remote backup, and repeatable checkpoints.

Start Here — Build Safely With AI · Start Here — Build Safely With AI

Three approaches to customizing AI — when each works, the cost and complexity tradeoffs, and which to try first.

Working With AI Tools · Working With AI Tools

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

Working With AI Tools · Working With AI Tools

Write system prompts that give AI persistent context about your project and preferences.

Working With AI Tools · Working With AI Tools

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

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

Prompts for your first real AI-assisted build session so the agent explains scope, asks clarifying questions, and stops after one safe first move.

2 prompts · Featured: Safe Beginner Loop

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

6 prompts · Featured: Safe Beginner Loop

Prompts for tightening requests, reviewing diffs, and debugging without letting the agent thrash.

23 prompts · Featured: Review The Diff

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

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

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

A step-by-step guide to building and deploying your first web application from scratch.

Guild Member · 20 lessons

A zero-to-one on-ramp for people who have never built software with AI before. Learn the safe workflow before you touch a real project.

Explorer · 6 lessons

Git is your safety net. Master it before your AI agents make a mess of your repo.

Guild Member · 20 lessons

Go beyond prompting single tools. Orchestrate AI agents, build with agent SDKs, set up the MCP ecosystem.

Guild Member · 20 lessons

Nothing matters except the data. Your app is disposable — your data is forever.

Guild Member · 20 lessons

How to get the best results from AI coding assistants, from Cursor to Claude Code.

Explorer · 23 lessons

92% of developers use AI coding tools. 60% of new code is AI-generated. But most prompts are 'build X' with no safety constraints. Here's how to write prompts that produce code you can actually ship.

Track: prompts · Apr 9, 2026

Stop syncing TypeScript interfaces by hand. One prompt, and your AI coding assistant converts a REST endpoint into a fully type-safe tRPC procedure — with Zod validation included.

Track: prompts · Mar 23, 2026

A weekend refactoring PR ships on Friday. Monday morning: production down, customers locked out, 500 errors everywhere. The root cause? A migration that added columns the app already expected to exist. Here's the prompt that generates safe, reversible migration scripts so your Monday mornings stay boring.

Track: prompts · Apr 3, 2026

A security researcher found an S3 bucket with 273,000 live Indian banking PDFs — 3,000 new files arriving daily — because someone built the upload flow without a presigned URL pattern. Here's the exact prompt to get your AI tool to generate the right flow the first time, with every security guardrail already baked in.

Track: prompts · Apr 2, 2026

Your app can go down at 2 a.m. and the first person to notice might be a frustrated user. This prompt wires up a proper /api/health endpoint with shallow and deep checks, connects it to Better Stack or UptimeRobot, configures Slack and SMS alert escalation, and stands up a public status page -- all in one shot.

Track: prompts · Apr 11, 2026

CORS errors are one of the most misdiagnosed problems in web development -- and the most common fix, slapping on a wildcard *, is both a security risk and often does not even work. This prompt gives your AI coding tool the context it needs to diagnose the exact error, configure the correct server-side headers, handle OPTIONS preflight, and split your allowed origins between development and production.

Track: prompts · Apr 9, 2026

Every unprotected API route is an open invitation — for bots, credential-stuffers, and runaway scripts that will kill your uptime and your cloud bill. One prompt, and your AI assistant wires up production-grade rate limiting in minutes.

Track: prompts · Mar 24, 2026

Your AI coding assistant built your Supabase tables fast. It probably skipped Row Level Security entirely. Here's the exact prompt that generates correct, production-ready RLS policies for any table you have — plus the anti-prompt that produces policies that look right but leave your data wide open.

Track: prompts · Mar 28, 2026