AI Prompts for Software Developers
Code review that teaches, codebase archaeology for legacy refactors, structured learning for new stacks, and the honest pre-mortem before a major architectural change.
16 hand-crafted Originals · Free · No signup · Last reviewed April 2026
Top use cases
- Code review with pattern-naming
- Codebase archaeology for legacy systems
- Architecture pre-mortems
- Learning a new stack
- Debugging strategy
- SQL query optimization
Hand-picked Originals
Salary Negotiation Pre-Mortem
Every objection your boss will raise — and the exact sentence you should say back. Built by a negotiation strategist for your specific situa...
Legal Contract Red-Flag Scanner
Paralegal-grade contract review in 60 seconds. Flags every clause that needs lawyer attention. Notes what's missing. Ranks your top 5 negoti...
Burnout Early-Warning Audit
Diagnoses the specific shape of your depletion — emotional exhaustion, cynicism, efficacy loss — and names the silent drain you've normalize...
Investment Stress-Test
Five brutal scenarios against your real portfolio. Finds the exact forced-sell threshold. Names the quiet assumption you didn't know you wer...
Codebase Archaeologist
Reads a codebase not to fix it but to understand its history. What was designed, what grew. The ghost engineer. The frozen decision. The loa...
Quit-or-Stay Calculator
Diagnoses whether you should leave your current job in the next 6 months. Stay / Quit / Set-a-decision-date — with reasoning, not reassuranc...
Competitor Teardown
Honest analysis of a competitor's wedge, their tax, and the move they won't see coming. For founders who don't want to lie to themselves.
Boss Communication Decoder
Translates the message your boss actually sent into the one they meant — and gives you the exact reply.
Code Review Teacher
Not just what's wrong — what senior engineer's brain is pattern-matching to when they smell it.
Energy Audit Weekly
Maps where your energy leaked and refueled last week — then picks the one change worth making next week.
Go-to-Market Stress Test
Finds the single load-bearing assumption in your GTM plan most likely to be wrong — and the $500 experiment to test it before you burn $500K...
Style Archaeologist
Paste 3 writing samples. Get a voice spec sheet so precise any AI can write as you — and actually sound like you.
Feedback Translation Engine
Translates vague, emotional, or corporate feedback into the actual signal — and flags what the person is NOT saying.
Home Purchase Red-Flag Inspector
The 3 risks most likely to cost you $20k+ in your first 5 years — and the exact negotiation leverage each one hands you.
Learning Path Architect
A 90-day skill acquisition plan with the one compounding habit that separates masters from plateau-ers.
Parent-Teen Communication Decoder
What your teen actually said vs. what they're really struggling with — plus the one response that keeps the door open and the one that slams...
How to use these prompts
- Click into any Original — read the example output FIRST.
- Copy the XML prompt block.
- Paste into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
- Fill in the <input> tags with your specific situation.
- Run. The auto-intake feature catches missing fields.
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