David SmithMar 20

While I don't yet feel like I have fully settled on how the I'll end up using LLMs in my day-to-day programming tasks, I have found a handful of prompts which I repeatably find to be generally useful and applicable regardless of whether I'm manually or agentically programming.

These are for:
- SwiftUI Previews
- Realtime Documentation
- Newly Localizable Strings
- Testing Plans
- Bug Finding
- Draft Release Notes

Detailed here: https://david-smith.org/blog/2026/03/20/generally-useful-prompts/

Show threadNeil Hargreaves
@_Davidsmith great post, great food for thought. Are you using the Codex.app? I'm hesitant to switch it on in Xcode because the setting is currently at the application and not project level.
Mar 20 at 10:31amWeb
Show threadDavid SmithMar 20
@glotcha I use both the Codex app and the Xcode integration, depending on what I'm doing. For localized, small changes I find the Xcode integrations is best. For large, sweeping analytics tasks I find the Codex app is best. But all very fluid and ever changing.