5 AI Prompts for Developers That Actually Work (And Why)

Most AI prompts for developers are useless. Not because the AI is bad - because the prompt is vague. "Review my code" gets you generic feedback. "Act as a senior engineer" gets you a persona, not a result. The prompts below are from the Prompt Playbook, a collection built around one principle: tell the model exactly what to check, in what order, with what output format. That specificity is what separates a useful response from a wall of generalities. 1. Production-Ready Code Review Review this c