🚀 9 ChatGPT Prompts That Feel Like Having a Senior Engineer in Your Pocket

That’s like buying a MacBook Pro just to use the calculator.

The real power of ChatGPT unlocks when you prompt it like a senior engineer, tech lead, or AI co pilot.

Below are 9 next level prompts designed to supercharge your workflow, with real world examples for each.

1. System Design Architect Prompt

Prompt:
“Act as a senior system architect. Design a scalable real time chat application (like WhatsApp) supporting 10M+ users. Include DB design, tech stack, load balancing, caching strategy, and message queue if needed.”

✅ Use case: You’re preparing for a system design interview or planning a scalable app.

2. Code Refactor Wizard

Prompt:
“Refactor the following React component to follow SOLID principles, reduce re renders, and extract logic into reusable hooks. Add comments where major decisions are made.”

✅ Use case: You’re optimizing legacy code and want cleaner, modular components.