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My 20 Favorite ChatGPT Prompts for Coding in 2025

Emmanuel Mumba on July 25, 2025

I use ChatGPT almost every day as part of my coding workflow. Over time, I’ve learned that how you ask is just as important as what you ask. If you...
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misakadev

I think that you can make the prompts more structural, by the end of the day, we are already living in the post-Cursor era, we know the how-tos of AI Coding, we just need to calibrate our existing workflows.

Anyway, still good information!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Thats really true, We keep learning . The Cursor era

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Emmanuel Mumba

Absolutely, you're right. We’re past the “how to use AI” phase now it's about fine-tuning for real workflows. More structured, modular prompts make sense. Appreciate the feedback.

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jeffdev03

All right, I think for tasks like generating a Boilerplate, don't we prefer Cursor more these days? I think ChatGPT and other chat-based AI are fundamentally not that good at this. I use them for quickly do some edits, but eventually find the AI coding IDE to be more fitting for my tasks.

Thanks for the info, OP. Hope next time, we can read more about tips for Cursor/Claude Code.... etc.

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Emmanuel Mumba

Absolutely agree with you. For tasks like generating boilerplates or working across an entire codebase, Cursor really does a better job it understands the project structure and context much more deeply than a chat window ever could.

I still use ChatGPT for quick edits, refactoring ideas, or when I’m stuck on how to approach something. But yeah, when it comes to bigger coding tasks, an AI-powered IDE like Cursor or Claude Code is just more practical.

Appreciate the suggestion might actually do a follow-up piece diving into tools like Cursor, Claude CLI, and others that go beyond just prompting. Thanks for reading

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Ananya Balehithlu

Nice Tips, Emmanuel!