From One-Off ChatGPT Asks to a Reusable Frontend Prompt Library

Description and use

<p>I used to treat ChatGPT like a vending machine. Need a React hook? Drop a coin. Need a PR summary? Drop another. Every ask started from zero — stack, conventions, what “done” meant — and every reply drifted a little from how we actually ship.</p> <p>The waste wasn’t the tokens. It was re-explaining our frontend rules every single time, then cleaning up the same mistakes.</p> <p>So I stopped pasting one-offs and started treating prompts like code: named, versioned, and checked into the repo.</p> <h2> One-off asks don’t compound </h2> <p>A throwaway chat is fine for a throwaway question. Fron

Problem

<p>I used to treat ChatGPT like a vending machine. Need a React hook? Drop a coin. Need a PR summary? Drop another. Every ask started from zero — stack, conventions, what “done” meant — and every reply drifted a little from how we actually ship.</p> <p>The waste wasn’t the tokens. It was re-explaining our frontend rules every single time, then cleaning up the same mistakes.</p> <p>So I stopped pasting one-offs and started treating prompts like code: named, versioned, and checked into the repo.</p> <h2> One-off asks don’t compound </h2> <p>A throwaway chat is fine for a throwaway question. Fron

Outcome

<p>I used to treat ChatGPT like a vending machine. Need a React hook? Drop a coin. Need a PR summary? Drop another. Every ask started from zero — stack, conventions, what “done” meant — and every reply drifted a little from how we actually ship.</p> <p>The waste wasn’t the tokens. It was re-explaining our frontend rules every single time, then cleaning up the same mistakes.</p> <p>So I stopped pasting one-offs and started treating prompts like code: named, versioned, and checked into the repo.</p> <h2> One-off asks don’t compound </h2> <p>A throwaway chat is fine for a throwaway question. Fron

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From One-Off ChatGPT Asks to a Reusable Frontend Prompt Library

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