Prompts that move your AI career forward

Most engineers use AI to write code. Use it to plan your move too. Copy a prompt, fill in the parts in brackets, and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT.

Here is the job description for the role I want:

[PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION]

Design one production-grade project I can build alone in 4 to 8 weeks that proves every core skill in it. Include: the problem it solves for a real business, the architecture, the stack, how I would evaluate it, how I would monitor cost and failures, and three bullet points I could put on my CV once it is built.

Here is my current experience:

[PASTE YOUR CV OR A SHORT SUMMARY]

Here is the job I want:

[PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION]

List the skills the job needs that my experience does not show yet. Rank them by how often they appear in similar AI job descriptions. For each one, tell me the smallest thing I could build to prove it, and roughly how long it would take in evenings and weekends.

Here is my CV:

[PASTE CV]

I am applying for [ROLE, e.g. AI Platform Engineer] roles. Rewrite my experience bullet points so they show the skills AI teams look for: running systems in production, reliability, cost, automation, data and monitoring. Keep every claim true to what I wrote. Use numbers where my text supports them, and flag any bullet that would be stronger with a number I have not given.

Act as a senior interviewer hiring for a [ROLE] at an AI company. Ask me one question at a time, covering production experience, system design and the tools in this job description:

[PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION]

After each answer, tell me what a strong candidate would have added, then ask the next question. After eight questions, give me my three weakest areas.

Here is a project I built:

[DESCRIBE THE PROJECT, ITS ARCHITECTURE AND STACK]

You are a staff engineer interviewing me about it. Ask me the ten hardest questions you would ask about its design decisions, failure modes, cost, scaling and security. Then tell me which of those I should be ready to answer before I put this project on my CV.

Give me a realistic AI system design interview question for a [ROLE] role, for example a RAG platform, a model serving platform or an agent system. Let me answer step by step. Push back like a real interviewer when I skip requirements, scale, cost, evaluation, monitoring or security. At the end, show me a strong answer structure and where mine fell short.

I am a [YOUR ROLE] with experience in [TOOLS YOU KNOW, e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD]. Teach me [NEW TOOL, e.g. vLLM or MLflow] by comparing every concept to something I already use. Then give me a one-evening exercise that uses it in a realistic production setup.

Here is my experience:

[PASTE SUMMARY OR CV]

I want recruiters hiring for [TARGET ROLE] roles to find me. Write a LinkedIn headline under 220 characters and a short about section in plain, first-person language. Use the keywords those recruiters search for, keep every claim true to my experience, and avoid buzzwords.