A robust prompt structure for building is: describe what you're doing in 2-4 sentences, tag the relevant files (avoiding files not immediately relevant), specify how to execute and what not to do, dump context (e.g. documentation), use delimiters to signal section breaks, repeat the core instruction, and specify output format.

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David

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one of the best things for program engineering is to repeat the most important stuff so make sure to do this in your like daily PRS because when you do a long context dump it'll often forget and whatever is last is super important

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I spent 400+ hours in Cursor, here’s what I learnedDavid Ondrej
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:09 PM

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