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Scenario-based prompting

As explained in Coding with AI

Scenario-based prompting asks an AI system to account for explicitly described usage situations, conditions, or workflows.

Scenario-based prompting asks an AI system to account for explicitly described usage situations, conditions, or workflows. It turns vague requests into concrete requirements. section 9.6.1

Shopping-cart API

Design a REST API for a shopping cart that handles these scenarios: a guest user adds items; a user logs in and merges the cart; checkout proceeds with a failed payment. section 9.6.1

Strengthen a scenario-based prompt by naming:

  • The concrete workflows the system must support. section 9.6.1
  • The audience, technical level, constraints, or evaluation criteria when they affect the result. section 9.6.1
<requirements>...</requirements>
<implementation>...</implementation> 
<tests>...</tests>

Organize a request into requirements, implementation, and tests so scenarios remain connected to delivery and verification. section 9.6.1

How Coding with AI covers it

How deep it goes
Demonstrates the technique through a shopping-cart API prompt covering guest access, cart merging, and failed payment.
Examples
Uses a shopping-cart API with guest additions, login-based cart merging, and failed-payment checkout.
What you can do after
Apply it to design a REST API that accounts for multiple user and checkout workflows.
How it connects
Connects API design with REST APIs, authentication, checkout, payment failures, and use cases.
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