Be specific about what you want
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What is Be specific about what you want?
Describe exactly what you want — layout, behavior, content, constraints. The more detail you give, the less the AI has to guess. Vague prompts produce vague results, and you end up spending more time correcting than if you had been specific from the start.
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More in stage 11: More topics
- Explicitly tell AI to "think" or "brainstorm"
- Tell AI what NOT to do
- Give AI mockups, reference files, and material
- Pick a popular tech stack rather than new/niche ones
- Explicitly ask AI to perform a security audit of the application
- Once tests are in place, refactor regularly
- Work step by step rather than trying to build all at once
- Leverage long context windows
- Ask AI to keep the code modular and aim for smaller modules/files
- Prompt the error message and let AI do the rest
- Consider Test-driven development (TDD)
- Ask for one task at a time
- Install and ask AI to use MCP
- Regularly ask the AI to review and refactor the codebase
- Implement Spec-Driven Development (SDD)
- Illustrate AI with Examples
- Plan what you need to develop
- If you have style/coding preferences, document them for AI
- Start each new feature with a clean Git slate
- Ask AI to write tests
- Regularly update your context document
- Always use env variables
- Use skills created by others
- Ask Al to create a list of possible causes
- Use "act as" framing when helpful
- If AI fails after 3 prompts, stop
- Use subagents
- For unrelated tasks, clean and start new sessions
- Use breaking tests
- Revert with Git
- Ask AI to handle your Git and GitHub CLI tasks
- Tell AI to add logs
- Use git commit
Be specific about what you want: common questions
Can I learn Be specific about what you want in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Be specific about what you want in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Be specific about what you want tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 30 of 51 in the free Vibe Coding roadmap, in stage 11, More topics. If you are new to Vibe Coding, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.