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 code for production readiness: Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode [LANGUAGE] [PASTE CODE] Review for: 1. BUGS: Actual errors, edge cases that would crash, off-by-one errors, null/undefined risks 2. SECURITY: Injection vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, missing input validation, auth issues 3. PERFORMANCE: N+1 queries, unnecessary loops, missing indexes, memory leaks, unoptimized algorithms 4. MAINTAINABILITY: Naming clarity, function length, single responsibility, magic numbers, dead code 5.…