Prompt Genius

Build entire apps using prompt templates

Darren Broemmer
7 min readJun 13, 2023
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The world of software development has completely changed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes it easy to create entire applications, chatbots, and websites. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and GitHub Copilot can all write and debug code in almost any programming language.

However, you can’t build an entire app in one prompt. At least not yet. AI is amazing but it can’t manage that much context at a time.

A series of prompts is needed. This is a form of conversational programming. The coding happens over a series of steps, each potentially having several iterations. You still use an iterative process to create your application as shown in the diagram below.

This article series will provide you with step-by-step prompt templates you can use to generate your application code using AI services. The approach detailed here follows a proven system design and development methodology. The difference between this approach and traditional software development is that the coding portion is accelerated from months to days using AI.

You design your application largely by defining the requirements. The design is comprised of natural language descriptions of the data your application manages and what users can do with it in your system. Software…

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Darren Broemmer

I write weekly on puzzles, science, and technology. Technologist, published author, ex-BigTech, indie publisher.