Sanjay Kholiya

Sanjay Kholiya

@sanjaydotpro.bsky.social

Tech entrepreneur by day, health junkie by night. Currently building snowseo.com

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Why These Work: Specificity beats generality: Structured prompts get better results Interactive > One-shot: Debugging is a conversation, not a command Context is everything: AI needs your project's specific patterns

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Technique #6: Test-Driven AI Iteration 🔁 Instead of "fix this code," try: "Write 3 failing tests that expose the bugs in this code. Then fix the code to make tests pass. Explain why each test was necessary." Forces AI to understand the problem deeply before solving

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Technique #3: XML Context Prompting 🔗 Claude models respond much better to structured prompts using XML tags. <code> [your buggy code] </code> <problem> Expected behavior vs actual behavior </problem> <context> Framework: React, Database OR link .md file </context>

Technique #4: Context File Technique 📂 Create /.cursor/rules/context[dot]md in your project with: Architecture decisions API endpoints Data flow patterns Common patterns used You don't need to reference it in every AI prompt. Code relevance automatically improves 4x

Technique #1: The "Rubber Duck" Prompt 🦆 Instead of: "Fix this code" Use: "I'm explaining this code to a junior developer. Here's what it does: [paste code or tag file]. What questions would they ask about potential bugs or improvements?" Works 10x better for debugging.

Technique #2: YOLO Mode + TDD 🏄 Cursor's YOLO mode can automatically run tests and iterate on code until all tests pass. Setup: Enable YOLO mode → Write prompt: "Write tests first, then code. Run tests and refine until all pass." I've improved test coverage from 0% to 55% in a week using this.

This guy turned $100k into $20 Billion USD. He was rejected by Apple and Facebook - but Peter Thiel saw his potential and took a bet on him. Today that bet on Dylan Field, founder of Figma, is worth over $20B. Here's his wild story 🧵

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The lesson? Sometimes the best companies start by ignoring conventional wisdom. Loved this story? Follow me for more threads on tech startups and product building. Like & RT to share this founder journey 🚀

This guy turned $100k into $20 Billion USD. He was rejected by Apple and Facebook - but Peter Thiel saw his potential and took a bet on him. Today that bet on Dylan Field, founder of Figma, is worth over $20B. Here's his wild story 🧵

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The breakthrough came from solving a simple problem: "Why do designers need to install software to collaborate?" While Adobe and Sketch focused on desktop, Figma bet everything on browsers + real-time collaboration. This changed everything.

This guy turned $100k into $20 Billion USD. He was rejected by Apple and Facebook - but Peter Thiel saw his potential and took a bet on him. Today that bet on Dylan Field, founder of Figma, is worth over $20B. Here's his wild story 🧵

In 2012, Dylan Field was a 20-year-old college student. He did something unusual: dropped out of Brown University after getting a $100K grant from Peter Thiel to NOT attend college. Everyone thought he was crazy. But he had a vision...

The first version of Figma was actually a FAILURE. They spent 2 years building a drone design tool (yes, for actual drones) But after burning through half their funding, they realized something crucial about product-market fit...

Oracle's free tier is nuts. It's crazy how you can get a 4-core, 24GB machine with a 200GB disk, and it DOESN'T cost you a dime. Throw in some dokploy and cloudflare magic on top to have your own "secure" and scalable infrastructure for hosting ANY app. All this for $0.

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