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Add a promptReview the diff below as a senior engineer on this codebase would. Order your review by what actually matters: 1. CORRECTNESS — logic errors, off-by-one, unhandled nulls, wrong er…
51 copies · 10 likesHere's the change I'm about to push: {{paste the diff}}. Context: {{what it's meant to do, what the codebase conventions are}}. Review it as three different people, separately: 1.…
32 copies · 7 likesWrite documentation for the code below, for an engineer who joins in six months. Structure: 1. WHAT AND WHY — what this does and the problem it exists to solve. Include the constr…
54 copies · 9 likesHere's an error and the relevant code. Diagnose it properly. 1. Translate the error into plain language: what the runtime was trying to do when it gave up. 2. Name the actual caus…
52 copies · 8 likesRefactor the code below. The behaviour must not change, including its bugs, unless I approve the change. Process: 1. First, describe the current behaviour precisely, including edg…
31 copies · 9 likesHere's the ticket: {{paste}}. Here's the relevant code: {{paste}}. Produce an implementation plan: 1. Restate the requirement precisely, and list every ambiguity you had to resolv…
28 copies · 11 likesHere's what the customer wrote: {{paste it verbatim, including the vague bits}}. Here's the relevant code: {{paste}}. Here's our test setup: {{framework, how fixtures work}}. Do t…
36 copies · 2 likesSecurity-review the code below. It handles {{describe data and who can reach it}}. Check specifically: 1. AUTHZ — is every object access scoped to the caller's tenant and role, or…
49 copies · 5 likesI'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 …
22 copies · 2 likesHere's a module I inherited and now have to support: {{paste the code}}. It currently logs {{nothing / everything at debug}}. Propose targeted logging, not a rewrite. For each sug…
24 copies · 4 likesHere's a bug that reached production, and the code around it. 1. Write the failing test that reproduces it at the smallest useful level (unit if the logic is pure, integration if …
48 copies · 4 likesI need to change a database schema while the app keeps serving traffic. Current shape: {{tables, columns, types, indexes, row counts}}. Target shape: {{what it should become}}. Sta…
24 copies · 6 likesMy 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.…
22 copies · 6 likesHere's my diff: {{paste git diff or the file list plus key hunks}}. The ticket said: {{paste it}}. Write the pull request description with these sections: 1. WHAT CHANGED — two se…
16 copies · 2 likesYou 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…
12 copies · 2 likesYou 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…
9 copies · 1 likeYou 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…
4 copies · 1 likeYou 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…
5 copiesYou 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…
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