10 AI prompts I actually use every day as a developer (copy-paste ready)

Every developer I know has had this experience: you open ChatGPT or Claude, type "write me a function to parse dates", and get back something so generic it's almost useless. The problem isn't the AI — it's the prompt. Vague input, vague output. After months of daily use, I've settled on a set of prompts that consistently get great results. Here are 10 of them, ready to copy and paste. Just swap the [brackets] for your specifics. 1. Write a clean function Write a [ language ] function that [ does