You've seen the lists. "100 ChatGPT Prompts for Developers." "Ultimate Prompt Pack for Coders." You try one, get a generic response that doesn't understand your stack, your codebase, or your actual problem — and go back to writing the prompt yourself from scratch.
The issue isn't the AI. It's that most prompts shared online were written by people who don't actually write code. They're optimized for looking comprehensive, not for producing useful output in a real codebase.
Here's what's actually going wrong, and how to fix it.
The three failure modes of generic dev prompts
1. No context anchoring
