Promptles
Anti-Patterns

Question the Obvious

When an error seems straightforward, pause and check if you're chasing a symptom or the cause. Telling Claude about the real root cause (not just the error message) prevents wasted cycles on the wrong fix.

Where you'll practice this

One Promptles scenario teaches this principle directly.

  • The Misleading Error

    Your app shows a "Failed to fetch user profile" error toast, and the network tab shows a 401 from `/api/profile`. The obvious assumption is the auth token is expired. But you recently deployed a change to `middleware/auth.ts` that accidentally swapped the header name from…

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