AI Prompt Templates That Actually Work
Each prompt below has its own page — with the template, example output, the structural breakdown, and which AI handles it best. Copy, fill in the blanks, send.
AI Code Review Prompt
Most ‘review this code’ prompts return surface-level praise followed by a wall of unsorted style nits. This template — built from …
Newsletter Writing Prompt
Newsletters live and die on personal voice. Most AI writing prompts produce generic newsletter-speak — ‘In today’s rapidly evolvin…
LinkedIn Post Prompt
Most AI-generated LinkedIn posts get caught immediately. The tells are predictable: opening question, emoji-bullet list, the phras…
Cover Letter Prompt
The average hiring manager spends 6 seconds on a cover letter before deciding to read more or skim past. AI-generated cover letter…
Email Reply Prompt
Most professional emails are 50 words of content buried in 200 words of formality. The reply you actually want to send is short, a…
Debug Code Prompt
The default failure mode of asking AI to debug code: the model immediately proposes a fix that papers over the symptom without fin…
SQL from English Prompt
Asking an AI to write SQL is the difference between ‘translate this English to SQL’ (often wrong, always overconfident) and ‘trans…
Learn Anything Prompt
The Feynman technique is the gold standard for learning: explain the concept simply, find the gaps, fill them, repeat. It’s effect…
Decision Matrix Prompt
When you’ve been debating two or three options for too long, the problem usually isn’t lack of information — it’s lack of structur…
Pre-Mortem Prompt
Post-mortems are autopsies — useful but too late. Pre-mortems are simulated autopsies before the work starts: assume the project f…
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