A Prompt to Make Claude Code Ask Questions Like a Senior Engineer
minchoi · x · 2026-08-01
The author shares a highly effective prompt for AI coding assistants. It instructs the AI to work like a contractor: proactively reading code and configs before asking questions, avoiding easily discoverable queries. It must then restate the requirements and acceptance criteria in one paragraph, and list only a few blocking questions, significantly reducing communication costs and wrong assumptions.
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