AI-Assisted Software Development: A Comprehensive Guide with Practical Prompts by Aalap Davjekar describes some of the prompts strategies that are useful in an AI coding environment.

Now, let’s talk about something that took me a while to fully grasp — the right mindset for AI-assisted development. Here’s the thing: AI isn’t here to replace your skills or take over your job.

When I first started, I made the mistake of treating AI like a magic code generator. I’d throw vague prompts at it and expect perfect, production-ready code. Spoiler alert: that didn’t work out so well. The key is to approach AI as a collaborator in your development process.

He reiterates lots of the stuff I’ve been describing in this journal over the past couple weeks, but interestingly enough, outside of Cursor; using a standard text editor. It seems hard for me to imagine reverting back to a standard editor now, back to copy paste.

The “architecture decisions log” he describes is very interesting. Looping back round to this idea of giving the agent context and persistence of memory.