AI Coding 101: Ultimate Prompt Guide (37 tips)

After 1000+ hours of coding with AI, I've put together 37 tips and prompts to help you get the most out of your AI coding tools.

AI Coding 101 is a series that takes you from zero coding experience to building full-stack apps with the help of AI. It is a completely new way to learn how to code and build products. We'll take an AI-first approach that emphasizes using AI to learn and write most of the code for us. Each episode is self-contained so you can skip around but they all add up to a complete learning experience.

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- Ultimate AI Coding Prompt Guide: https://github.com/VoloBuilds/prompts/blob/main/ultimate-coding-prompt-guide.md
- Learn to Code Prompt Guide: https://github.com/VoloBuilds/prompts/blob/main/LearnToCode.md


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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - #1 - Specify the Tech
00:51 - #2 - Use Popular Tech
01:31 - #3 - Design First
02:36 - #4 - Use Lists
03:17 - #5 - Right Scope
04:18 - #6 - Use Examples
04:38 - #7 - Sample Code
05:02 - #8 - @Docs & @Web
05:24 - #9 - Security & Performance
05:47 - #10 - Be Proactive
06:00 - #11 - Testing
06:44 - #12 - Documentation
07:07 - #13 - Naming
08:00 - #14 - Refactor & Simplify
08:39 - #15 - The Most Important Tip
09:25 - #16 - File Context
09:41 - #17 - Big Files
10:28 - #18 - Conversation Context
11:16 - #19 - New Conversations
11:40 - #20 - This Works Well
12:27 - #21 - Edge Cases
13:03 - #22 - Code Review
13:36 - #23 - Explain the Code
14:28 - #24 - Be Specific
14:57 - #25 - Screenshots
15:19 - #26 - Errors
15:32 - #27 - The Beaver Method
16:15 - #28 - Explain the Code (pt2)
16:55 - #29 - My Secret Weapon
17:41 - #30 - The Final Frontier
19:10 - #31 - Learning to code
20:08 - #32 - Line By Line
21:09 - #33 - Explain the Tech
21:52 - #34 - How To Build
22:44 - #35 - Show Examples
23:06 - #36 - You Already Know
23:25 - #37 - The Last Tip