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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

923: Getting the Most Out of AI Coding

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes share their top strategies for getting high-quality results from AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and Windsurf. From better prompting to building reusable rule sets, they cover practical tips for making AI your most productive coding partner. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Wes' Tweet 02:56 How to get the best results when using AI. 03:15 Scaffold it out yourself. 05:40 Be clear with your prompts. 07:45 Use XML tags around specific items 08:47 Utilize Rules like Cursor rules or Copilot rules. 13:20 Ask it to create some rules based on an existing codebase. 16:03 Break things down into clear concise actionable items. 17:22 Where to store your rules files. 18:37 Utilizing llm.txt files. 19:24 Context7. 20:28 Tag relevant files, functions, etc. 21:38 Feed logs back into the AI. 22:36 Logging Errors. 22:54 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 24:14 Long running chats get worse. Wes' Tweet Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today, we've got a quick episode for you on how to get the most out of

0:06.5

AI coding. So these are a bunch of tips that I've come up with myself, Scott added a whole bunch of

0:12.1

his, and I also reached out on Twitter, asked everybody what are your best tips for getting the

0:18.0

most out of AI coding, especially.

0:27.0

This is not just like prompt engineering, but basically how do you approach problems?

0:28.8

How do you ask for things that you want?

0:34.4

How do you supply the information so that you get the best possible coat out the other end? My name is West Boston.

0:35.4

We're from Canada with me as always. Mr. Scott Tillinsky. How you doing, Scott?

0:40.9

Hey, I'm doing good, man. I'm wearing a sweatshirt in the summer because I don't know about you.

0:45.9

My air conditioning only cools like the bottom floor of our house. And then like the top floor

0:51.4

super warm. I think that's common. But like's common but like yeah yeah man we'll have the

0:55.2

air conditioning on and every morning we come downstairs and our first floor is like freezing because

1:01.0

the thermostat there's a thermostat upstairs so i got to figure that out i got to get something

1:05.5

going here because this is like it's you know the upstairs you're sweating your your butt off

1:09.5

and downstairs you're an ice cube.

1:11.5

Drives me nuts that HVAC is not better.

1:14.3

Like, the amount of people that I talk to that have brand new houses and they're like, yeah, that's kind of hot in this one room.

1:19.8

It's like, can someone please figure out that just, and the move, honestly, is these little heat pumps i've got one one right here the

1:29.6

mini splits yeah like every room should just be able to you can turn it on like why are we

1:35.7

cooling an entire house just to keep one thing is and like i'm in a i'm in the basement usually

1:40.8

and i've got foam stuffed in the vents because it's like so cold in our

1:46.6

basement. And then the top floor is just cooking. Yeah, I think that makes so much sense because

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