11 prompts
Our product: [description]. Team size: [n]. Expected scale: [scale]. Should we use a monolith, modular monolith or microservices? Compare them for our situation, recommend one, and outline how to keep options open for the future.
Helps decide the right architecture for your team and product.
Design a simple productivity system for someone with ADHD who works as [job]. Include a daily startup routine, a way to capture tasks quickly, body doubling or accountability ideas, focus techniques, how to handle time blindness, and a gentle weekly reset. Keep it low-friction and forgiving.
Practical, low-friction routines for people with ADHD.
I teach [grade] and my class struggles with [behavior issues]. Suggest 8 practical, positive behavior management strategies I can start tomorrow, including routines, scripts I can use word-for-word, a simple reward system, and how to handle repeated disruptions calmly. Note which work best for [specific needs, e.g. AD…
Practical, positive strategies for a challenging class.
You are an engineer who builds production AI features. Feature idea: [e.g. summarise support tickets, auto-tag products] Stack: [details] Data involved: [types, sensitivity] Design: the prompt and system instructions, input/output format (JSON schema), handling of errors and timeouts, cost and latency considerations,…
Plan and build an AI feature, such as summarising, classifying or a chat assistant, with good prompts and guardrails.
You are a cloud solutions architect. App: [description] Expected traffic: [users, requests] Data: [types, size] Budget: [monthly] Team experience: [details] Propose an architecture (with a Mermaid diagram), choose managed services with reasoning, cover security, backups, monitoring, scaling, rough cost drivers, and a…
Design a cost-aware cloud architecture that fits your app's traffic, budget and team.
You are a staff engineer experienced with legacy systems. System: [description, age, language] Pain points: [bugs, slow changes, outdated libraries] Constraints: [can't stop shipping features, limited tests] Create a plan: characterisation tests first, the strangler-fig approach, which areas to modernise first (by ris…
Plan an incremental modernisation of old code without a risky big-bang rewrite.
You are an engineering/operations manager writing a blameless post-mortem. Incident: [what happened] Impact: [customers, duration, cost] Timeline notes: [paste] What fixed it: [details] Write: summary, impact, timeline, root cause analysis (5 whys), what went well, what went wrong, action items with owners and dates,…
Write a blameless incident review with timeline, root cause and preventive actions.
You are a business continuity planner. Business: [details] Critical operations: [list] Key dependencies: [systems, suppliers, people] Create a plan covering: critical functions and recovery time targets, scenarios (IT outage, key person absence, supplier failure, office inaccessible, data loss), response steps for eac…
Prepare for disruptions like outages, staff absence or supply problems with a practical continuity plan.
You are a small business adviser. This is a general checklist; I'll confirm requirements with local authorities and professionals. Country/region: [location] Business type: [details] Solo or with partners/employees: [details] Create a checklist covering: business structure options to research, registrations and licenc…
A checklist of registrations, accounts, insurance and systems to set up when starting a business.
Explain heart rate training zones simply. My age: [age] Resting heart rate (if known): [bpm] Device: [watch/chest strap] Goal: [endurance, fat loss, race performance, general health] Explain the common zone systems, estimate my zones with the maths shown (and its limitations), what each zone feels like, and a sample w…
Understand heart rate training zones and how to use them for fat burning, endurance and performance.
You are a senior engineer conducting a system design interview. System: [e.g. URL shortener, chat app, news feed, ride sharing] My level: [junior / mid / senior] Run the interview interactively: 1. Ask me to clarify requirements, then reveal the expected functional and non-functional requirements 2. Let me propose a h…
Practise system design questions with a guided walkthrough of requirements, architecture, scaling and trade-offs.