Our Origin Story
The CodePromptFu website was created sometime in early January 2025. Most of the development has been prompt-based, in Windsurf. This is how the first few hours of its development looked like.
Version 0
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can you generate a web app where users can post LLM prompts and upvote/downvote them. use nextjs as the framework
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Version 0.1
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can you add tags to the posts, and also a way to see the posts by tags
Version 0.2
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add a feature that lets you run the prompt and view the output. run button needs to be added. and capture openai output. we have a .env file now with OPENAI_API_KEY that you can use for queries to openai. add a collapse button after the output gets shown
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Version 0.3
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can you add an about page which explains what this site is about
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Version 0.4
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can you move the form which allows adding new prompts to a different page. the home page should only show the tags and the prompts
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Conclusion
Step-by-step development using concise prompts works with today’s AI-based coding tools. CodePromptFu is still a work in progress, so it is entirely possible that AI-based tools might not help later on. Or, a completely different category of prompts might be needed to solve production problems. We will know as we keep making progress in prompt engineering.