5 AI Prompt Patterns That 10x Your Coding Productivity

Are you spending hours crafting the perfect prompts for AI coding assistants? Here are 5 battle-tested prompt patterns that will instantly improve your AI pair programming sessions. 1. The Bug Detective Pattern I have a bug in my [language] code. Here's what happens: - Expected: [expected behavior] - Actual: [actual behavior] [paste code] Walk me through debugging this step by step. Check for: 1. Logic errors 2. Off-by-one errors 3. Null/undefined cases 4. Type mismatches This pattern works because it gives the AI structured context instead of just "fix my code." 2.