'Is this the simplest implementation possible?' — the one prompt this dev uses most
tlakomy · x · 2026-11-07
Developer tlakomy shares his most-used AI coding prompt: "Is this the simplest implementation possible?" A practical counter-question that pushes the model to audit and simplify its own output instead of accepting the first working version.
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