AI Coding Tools: Prompt Libraries & Workflow Strategies for Maximum Impact! 💥

🎥 Welcome back to the Mastering AI Coding series! In this third installment, we're kicking off the initial iteration of our AI-powered brainstorming and journaling app. This app will allow you to create journal entries, categorize them with tags, and even use AI to generate summaries and related ideas—but we'll be building it out over the course of several tutorials. ⚠️ IMPORTANT!! ⚠️ Although this video was originally intended to be part of a series, it can stand alone. I cover everything you'll need to know to get setup and follow this video's tutorial. In this video, the spotlight is on our AI-augmented development workflow. I’ll show you how to leverage proven, reusable prompts from your prompt library to develop faster and get better results from your AI coding assistants like aider and Cody. With the right prompts, we can streamline coding tasks, avoid common pitfalls, and supercharge our productivity. In This Video: - Setting up your project and creating the initial UI using Vue.js. - Using a structured prompt library to get consistent results with your AI coding assistants. - Building the app incrementally by leveraging AI tools for everything from UI to backend. - Integrating AI to help us generate summaries, brainstorm new ideas, and more. - Utilizing a custom AI-powered prompt that acts as a tutor for your codebase, helping you learn while you build! By the end of this video, you’ll have a solid foundation and a repeatable AI coding workflow that you can apply to this and any future projects! 🚀 Chapters: 00:00 Overview of tutorial and the app we'll build 01:21 Installing the coding assistants 02:37 Creating your Cody prompt library 03:46 Overview of our workflow 06:12 Cody + prompt library to generate requirements, tech stack and user stories 17:13 aider + prompt library to build our app 33:45 Cody + prompt library to "teach" us 39:11 Review and what's next Find all the prompts from the prompt library used with Cody AI and aider in this video: https://gist.github.com/codingthefuturewithai/dba38a949c3463cf84cc528a08d5d28c ## Prompt for aider installation: “I’m brand new to using AI coding assistants for software development. Please provide detailed, step-by-step instructions for setting up aider on my Mac from scratch. I’m not sure what tools I need, so include everything required. Guide me through the installation of any necessary software, explain how to create a testing environment, and show me how to configure aider to work with Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Also, provide a simple example for verifying the setup, such as editing a file with aider using the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, and let me check that the file was correctly updated. Use the official online aider documentation for info before generating instructions.” ## Prompt for AI model recommendation for aider: “I want to use the aider AI coding assistant for generating source code. Which AI model is currently recommended as the best option for aider at the moment? Research this and let me know.” ## Prompt for dealing with installation issues: “When I ran the command you gave me to install Python, I got this error: INSERT_ERROR_HERE” ## Prompt for installing the Cody AI coding assistant: “I’m brand new to using AI coding assistants for software development. Please provide detailed, step-by-step instructions for setting up the Cody AI coding assistant on my Mac from scratch. I’m not sure what tools I need, so include everything required. Guide me through the installation of any necessary software. Also, provide a simple way for me to verify the setup. Use the official online Cody documentation for info before generating instructions.” ## GitHub repo with final code for app version shown in this tutorial: https://github.com/codingthefuturewithai/yt-mastering-ai-coding-ai-journaling-app/tree/tutorial-1-final **Links to Resources for Topics Referenced in this Video:** - Cody AI: https://sourcegraph.com/cody - Aider AI Coding Assistant Guide: https://aider.chat/docs/install.html - Sourcegraph Prompt Library: - https://sourcegraph.com/docs/cody/capabilities/commands#prompt-library - https://sourcegraph.com/prompts **Connect with me:** • Coding the Future Skool Community: https://www.skool.com/coding-the-future-with-ai • Website: https://codingthefuture.ai • X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/codingfutureai If you're ready to build smarter and faster with AI, don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to stay updated on future tutorials. Let’s build something amazing together! ⚡️