Write release notes someone will actually read
You are writing release notes for the people who use this product, not for the team that built it. Here is what shipped, in raw form (commits, tickets, or my own notes): {{paste ra…
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Prompts for DeepSeek
Community-tested ways to get more useful results from DeepSeek.
Add a promptUnblock a dependency upgrade that broke the build
A dependency upgrade broke my build. Upgrade: {{package, from version, to version}}. Errors: {{paste the first and last 30 lines of the failure}}. Lockfile or manifest: {{paste rel…
63 copies · 13 likesTriage a test suite that fails at random
My CI is red often enough that people rerun jobs instead of reading them. Failure data: {{paste test names, failure counts, and recent failure output}}. Stack and test runner: {{e.…
52 copies · 12 likesDecide the error handling for a new API endpoint
I'm adding an endpoint: {{method, path, what it does}}. It touches {{database / third-party API / queue}}. Callers are {{our own frontend / third-party integrators / both}}. Give …
54 copies · 4 likesMove a working prompt to a cheaper model without losing the output
You are helping me port a prompt that already works on an expensive model to a cheaper or smaller one. I will paste the prompt and describe the output I depend on. Work in this or…
66 copies · 10 likesEstimate what a price change will really do to revenue
You are a pricing analyst. I am considering the price change described below. Using only my data, build the revenue case honestly. Output: 1. BASELINE — current customers, ARPU, …
35 copies · 10 likesTurn a churn export into the three cancel reasons you can act on
You are a retention analyst. Here is an export of customers who cancelled: {{paste rows — signup date, cancel date, plan, price, usage in the last 30 days, stated cancel reason, an…
49 copies · 9 likesTurn a week of your own mistakes into a study list
You are my coach. Below are the mistakes I actually made this week while learning {{skill or subject}}: {{paste them - wrong answers, failed attempts, corrections you received, thi…
54 copies · 8 likesFinish the course you abandoned in week two
I started {{course or book}} and stopped at {{where}}. Act as a coach who gets me over the line, not a motivator. Remaining contents: {{paste the module or chapter list}}. Why I st…
41 copies · 8 likesWrite the on-call runbook for the service you own
You are a staff engineer writing an on-call runbook for someone who has never touched this service. The service: {{what it does, who depends on it, what it talks to}}. Paste the co…
30 copies · 8 likesWork out why a concept still isn't sticking
I have studied {{topic}} and it still does not click. Act as a diagnostician, not a re-explainer. Here is my own explanation of it, in my words, mistakes included: {{write your und…
55 copies · 6 likesRebuild a skill you learned once and have not used in years
You are a coach for people relearning something, not beginners - the wrong plan wastes weeks on things they still know. Skill and the last time I used it seriously: {{e.g. SQL, fo…
16 copies · 7 likesSanity-check a spreadsheet model before you present it
You are a skeptical reviewer. Below is a spreadsheet model I did not build and have to present on Thursday. Find what would embarrass me. Return: 1. ASSUMPTIONS — table with Cell…
35 copies · 6 likesWork out how much of last month's growth was real
You are a skeptical analyst. Here is the metric that moved: {{name, last 13 months of values, and the definition}}. What else changed: {{launches, pricing, campaigns, tracking chan…
34 copies · 5 likesDecide whether to roll back or fix forward at 2am
You are the calm senior engineer on an incident bridge. Symptoms and blast radius: {{errors, affected users, when it started}}. What shipped recently: {{commits, migrations, config…
23 copies · 6 likesTurn a 40-slide deck into a memo people will actually read
You are an editor who has watched a deck get skimmed and misread. Source: {{paste the slide text, speaker notes, and any numbers, slide by slide}}. Context: {{who reads this, what …
33 copies · 5 likesDecide what to delete from a codebase nobody has cleaned in two years
You are a staff engineer doing a deletion pass. Candidate dead code: {{paste file list, functions, feature flags, endpoints, and any usage or analytics data you have}}. How we dete…
38 copies · 5 likesTurn a dense API doc into a working mental model in an hour
You are teaching me an unfamiliar API I have to build against today. Below is its documentation. Do not summarise it - build me a mental model. Give me: 1. THE SHAPE — the 5-8 co…
33 copies · 5 likesSegment your customers by what they are actually worth to you
You are an analyst who knows revenue and value are not the same number. Customer export: {{paste or describe columns - revenue, tenure, plan, usage, support tickets, discount}}. W…
20 copies · 5 likesWrite the apology email after you broke something for customers
You are the person who has to send this, not a PR team. What broke: {{what happened, in plain words}}. Who was affected and how badly: {{segment, count if known, what they could no…
51 copies · 4 likesWork out whether a dip is seasonal or something breaking
You are an analyst who refuses to call something seasonal without checking. My metric dropped and half the team says it is the time of year. Below is the history and what changed. …
14 copies · 5 likesTurn a support ticket export into the five fixes worth making
You are a support operations analyst. Attached is a ticket export: {{columns present, date range, row count, and any fields for handling time, plan tier or resolution}}. I want to …
24 copies · 4 likesWrite the FAQ for an internal change your team will hate
You are the manager who has to stand behind this, not the person who decided it. The change: {{what is changing, from what to what, effective date}}. Why it is happening, in plain …
27 copies · 4 likesFit a certification syllabus around a full-time job
You are a study coach who plans around real calendars, not ideal ones. Certification and exam date: {{name, provider, date booked or target}}. Official syllabus or domain weightin…
20 copies · 4 likesTurn a conference you attended into something you actually use
You are a coach who has watched people come back from events full of energy and change nothing. My raw notes, session titles and any recordings text: {{paste everything, unedited}}…
16 copies · 4 likesBuild your own thirty-day ramp plan for a new job
You are a mentor who has watched people succeed and fail in their first month. My role: {{title, team, company type, who I report to}}. What I was told I am here to do: {{paste the…
19 copies · 4 likesDecide what to do about a bug you cannot reproduce
You are a senior engineer on call. A bug is reported but does not reproduce locally. Report: {{paste the ticket or user description}}. Relevant code: {{paste}}. What we have from p…
35 copies · 3 likesTurn a raw event log into a funnel with the drop-off explained
You are a product analyst. I have raw event data and need a funnel I can defend. Event schema: {{table name, columns, event names, and what each one fires on}}. The journey I care …
46 copies · 3 likesCut a twenty-minute build down to something you can live with
You are a build engineer looking at a CI pipeline that has crept up to {{current wall-clock time}}. Config: {{paste CI config / Dockerfile / build script}}. Timing breakdown per st…
38 copies · 3 likesRewrite a job description that is scaring off good candidates
You are an editor who has read thousands of job posts. Current post: {{paste the full job description}}. What the person will really spend their first 90 days doing: {{be specific}…
44 copies · 3 likesDesign the onboarding curriculum for the next person in your role
You are an instructional designer. I am writing the learning path for whoever takes over my role. My role: {{title, team, what I own}}. The things I actually do weekly: {{paste a r…
25 copies · 3 likesWork out which customers are quietly about to leave
You are a data analyst who has seen too many churn models that only fire after the customer has already gone. The export: {{paste usage or account data - columns and 20+ rows, or …
23 copies · 3 likesClose the gap between your skills and the job you want next year
You are a blunt career coach. I want a specific job in about a year and I would rather hear what is missing than be encouraged. The role I want, with a real posting pasted in: {{p…
13 copies · 3 likesChoose between building a channel and hiring your own reps
You are an operator who has run both a partner channel and a direct sales team, and knows which one hides its costs. Compare both routes using only my numbers. 1. WHAT THIS DECISI…
12 copies · 3 likesDecide whether an A/B test result is safe to ship
You are a sceptical experimentation reviewer. I want to ship a test result and need to know if it holds. The test: {{what changed, primary metric, hypothesis}}. Numbers: {{per vari…
40 copies · 2 likesWork out what your data can honestly answer before you promise an analysis
You are a senior analyst scoping a request before committing to it. Half of these questions cannot be answered with what we actually collect, and finding that out in week two is th…
13 copies · 3 likesDecide what to do with the ideas you keep writing down and never starting
You are a ruthless editor of someone else's ambitions - mine. My idea list, exactly as I wrote it, messy: {{paste every idea, side project and someday-item}}. Hours a week I genui…
28 copies · 2 likesGet the most out of thirty minutes with someone more senior than you
You are my coach. I have a short session booked with someone whose time is expensive, and I usually waste it on questions they could answer in a blog post. Return exactly four sec…
23 copies · 2 likesLearn enough of a field to hire someone better than you at it
You are a tutor helping me get literate in a field fast, because I have to hire and manage someone in it and I cannot fake it. The field: {{name it}}. The role and what they will …
16 copies · 2 likesWork out whether a broken dashboard number is data or reality
You are a data lead. A number on our dashboard looks wrong. Before anyone panics, separate pipeline breakage from a real business change. Output four sections. 1. FIRST FIVE CHECK…
11 copies · 2 likesDecide what to instrument before you ship the feature
You are a product analyst reviewing a tracking plan before code freeze. Missing events cannot be backfilled, and extra events cost review time forever. The feature and how a user …
12 copies · 2 likesGet up to speed on a tool your company just bought and made you the owner of
You are a patient tutor helping me learn a tool fast, because someone above me bought it and I am now the person the team asks. The tool and what it is meant to replace: {{name it…
5 copies · 2 likesDecide whether to take the big custom deal that bends your product
You are an operator deciding on one large deal that requires custom work. Below are the contract value and term, what they are asking us to build or change, our roadmap for the sam…
7 copies · 2 likesWork out whether your free plan is paying for itself
You are a finance-literate operator reviewing a free tier nobody has questioned since launch. Below are my plan limits, free and paid user counts, conversion and cost data. 1. WHA…
6 copies · 2 likesTurn a tutorial binge into one thing you can actually do
You are a coach who cares about what I can do on Monday, not what I watched. I have consumed a pile of tutorials, videos and articles on one topic and produced nothing. Below is wh…
10 copies · 1 likeRun a study group that does not fizzle in week two
You are helping me run a small study group of working adults who will all be tired on the night. What we are studying: {{topic, book or course}}. How many of us and our starting l…
10 copies · 1 likeDecide what to do with pages an AI answer box now answers for you
You are a content lead whose informational pages still rank but no longer get clicked, because the answer now sits above the results. Below is my page list with impressions, clicks…
7 copies · 1 likeLearn from a mistake at work without replaying it for a week
You are a calm mentor running a personal post-mortem. You are not here to reassure me. What happened, in plain order of events: {{paste, including what I said or shipped}}. What I…
21 copiesCheck whether you actually learned what you studied last month
You are my tutor running a retention check, not a lesson. Below is what I studied in the last month (topics, sources, dates) and what I was trying to be able to do with it. 1. CLO…
5 copies · 1 likeFind the cost lines worth cutting in a year of spend
You are a finance analyst. Below is an export of spend (vendor, category, date, amount) and a target saving. Find the cuts, not a generic cost-cutting essay. 1. SHAPE OF SPEND - t…
9 copies · 1 likeSet the alert thresholds that catch a real problem, not noise
You are an analyst setting up alerting on business and product metrics. Below is recent history for each metric and what the on-call person can actually do about it. Design alerts …
2 copies · 1 likeDecide what to do when your biggest customer is bought by a competitor
You are advising a founder whose largest customer was just acquired by a competitor of ours. Below is the contract and revenue picture and what is public about the acquirer. Plan t…
2 copies · 1 likeGet fluent in the numbers your company runs on
You are a tutor teaching me the metrics my own company lives by, so I stop nodding along in meetings. Below are the metric names I hear, any definitions or dashboards I have, and m…
8 copiesWork out whether a new feature changed behaviour or just moved it around
You are an analyst checking whether a shipped feature created new activity or cannibalised existing activity. Below is usage data before and after launch, plus what the feature doe…
6 copiesPlan for the week your best person gives notice
You are a founder whose most load-bearing employee just resigned. Below is their role, what they own, current projects with dates, who else touches that work, and the notice period…
3 copiesDecide what to do with the outliers before they decide for you
You are a careful analyst. Below is my dataset description, the extreme values I found, and the question the analysis has to answer. Decide how each outlier should be handled. 1. …
2 copiesBuild your own glossary for a jargon-heavy team you just joined
You are my onboarding tutor. Below are real excerpts from my new team's messages, docs and meeting notes, plus what I already know. Build the glossary I should keep open in my firs…
2 copiesWork out whether your discounts are buying revenue or giving it away
You are a revenue analyst. Below is a deal-level or order-level export with discount amounts, plus my cost and retention notes. Tell me what the discounting is actually doing. 1. …
3 copiesDecide which user-generated pages to let Google index
You are an SEO lead deciding what to do with a large set of user-generated or auto-created pages. Below is the page type and how it is generated, a sample of 10-20 real URLs with t…
1 copyStudy for interviews in a field you are switching into
You are coaching someone changing fields who has interviews coming. Below is my current background, the target role, and how many weeks I have. Build the study plan. 1. THE GAP - …
1 copyDecide whether to open up part of your product for free
You are a strategy advisor. Someone on my team wants to give away part of our product - open-source it, or make it permanently free - to win distribution. Below is what we would gi…
Teach yourself from documentation that is out of date
You are a study partner helping me learn a tool whose official docs are stale. Below is the doc section I am working from, the version I am actually running, and what I am trying t…