Lessons

The Prompting Playbook

Isolate before you fix

Narrow down where the problem actually lives before asking for a fix.

3 min#When It Breaks

Narrow down where the problem actually lives before asking for a fix. Four quick checks: does it break on a hard refresh, on a different page, when logged out, and on mobile?

Most breakages in AI-built apps hide in the states nobody prompted for — empty data, still loading, failed request, logged out. If your app works when you're logged in with data and breaks otherwise, that's the answer.