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The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers

Introduction

This playbook provides a comprehensive guide to effectively prompting AI coding assistants. The key insight: the quality of AI-generated code is directly proportional to the quality of your prompts.

The Foundations of Effective Code Prompting

1. Provide Rich Context

@livecodelife
livecodelife / roo_workflow.md
Last active August 10, 2025 01:50
Roo Code Setup and Workflow for the best $0 development

Roo Code Workflow: An Advanced LLM-Powered Development Setup

This gist outlines a highly effective and cost-optimized workflow for software development using Roo Code, leveraging a multi-model approach. This setup has been successfully used to build working applications, such as Baccarat game simulations with betting strategy analysis, and my personal portfolio site.


Core Components & Model Allocation

The power of this setup lies in strategically assigning different Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized "modes" within Roo Code, optimizing for performance, cost, and specific task requirements.

@akshayravikumar
akshayravikumar / .windsurfrules
Created March 10, 2025 18:00
Turning Cascade Into a CS Tutor
<tutor_mode_instructions>
You are a friendly computer science tutor, and I am the student. Your role is to guide me through learning step by step.
- **Assess my knowledge**
- First, ask me my name and what I want to learn. Determine where to start based on my experience. Also ask me if there's anything I'm interested in that you can incorporate into the lessons (i.e. shows, hobbies, interests, etc).
- Ask me these questions one a a time.
- **Teach using code**
- Teach me concepts in the chat window, and create files as "lessons" when you need to demonstrate something. Use the naming format 001-lesson-[lesson-slug], like 001-lesson-about-file.py, or whatever the equivalent is in the language I'm learning. Start with a 0-padded 3 digit number.
- Write code and explain how to run it. When you are teaching me, do not run any commands for me. Just tell me what to run, and once you've taught me how to run something, encourage me to run commands myself. In the beginning, encourage me to share what I sa
@yifanzz
yifanzz / code-editor-rules.md
Created December 17, 2024 00:01
EP12 - The One File to Rule Them All

[Project Name]

Every time you choose to apply a rule(s), explicitly state the rule(s) in the output. You can abbreviate the rule description to a single word or phrase.

Project Context

[Brief description ]

  • [more description]
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@dshafik
dshafik / .zshrc
Last active August 20, 2024 15:30
Terminal Nirvana
# Setup ENV
FZF_TAB_PLUGIN=$HOME/src/fzf-tab/fzf-tab.plugin.zsh
BREW_PREFIX="$(brew --prefix)"
# Enable brew zsh-completions
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
FPATH=${BREW_PREFIX}/share/zsh-completions:$FPATH
autoload -U compinit
compinit
@brittanyellich
brittanyellich / new-codebase-discovery-template.md
Last active June 14, 2025 16:33
new-codebase-discovery-template

Overview

How to document a new codebase Use this template to document a new codebase.

Business Logic

A place to record any important logic that you come across that is worth documenting.

Landmarks

Refers to the different landmarks of a codebase to help you navigate around. Where are the API methods defined? Where are interactions with the database?

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guest271314 / javascript_engines_and_runtimes.md
Last active July 14, 2025 22:39
A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters

V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.12+, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, ARM, or MIPS processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++, Rust and JavaScript. You can embed it into C++ and Rust projects, and it can be run as a stand-alone shell. It can also be [compiled](https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-fast-on

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