Why Your FastAPI Project Needs an AI Copilot (and How to Prompt It Right)
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Beyond boilerplate: Leveraging Generative AI to sharpen your FastAPI development workflow. Let’s be honest, wading through docs, debugging cryptic tracebacks, or trying to remember the exact dependencies syntax can still eat up chunks of …
AI’s Next Level Isn’t Just More Data, It’s Understanding Your Whole Damn Task
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Moving beyond separate apps to AI systems that grasp your full intent across your digital world. We’ve spent years building workflow automations like domino runs. If this webhook fires here, send that email there. …
My Cursor Custom Mode Setup, Part 2: The Execution Team
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Don’t just plan, execute. Part 2 of my AI toolkit unveils the 7 expert modes for code reviews, security, and DevOps. Here’s the rest of the setup. In the first part of this series, …
My Cursor Custom Mode Setup: Building the Perfect AI Development Toolkit
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Stop using generic AI chat. I’ve built a specialised toolkit in Cursor using GPT-5, Claude 4, and Gemini 2.5 to match the right model to the right job. Here’s the entire setup. I got …
Coding is Useless in 2025. (Unless You Understand This One Thing)
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Coding is Useless in 2025. (Unless You Understand This One Thing) AI tools are getting scarily good at writing code. From my experience, relying on them without a deep understanding of the fundamentals isn’t …
The Prompts I Actually Use to Code with AI Assistants
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. I treat my AI assistant like a smart, fast, but very literal junior dev. Here’s my playbook for planning, coding, debugging, and deploying with it. I’ve spent hundreds of hours working alongside AI coding …
The Creativity Trap: Why AI Brainstorms Might Be Limiting Your Ideas
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. We all hoped AI would bring endless new ideas. It might be doing the exact opposite. I remember when most people agreed on one of the best ways to use generative AI: brainstorming. Everyone, …
The Agent Prototype Trap: 15 Things That Break When You Hit Production
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Turns out, getting AI to answer questions is the easy part. Shipping something reliable is where the real fun begins. It almost always starts innocently enough. You’re messing around with an LLM API, feed …
Beyond the Prompt: What Google’s LLM Advice Doesn’t Quite Tell You
Author(s): Mayank Bohra Originally published on Towards AI. Image by the author Alright, let’s talk about prompt engineering. Every other week, it seems there is a new set of secrets or magical techniques guaranteed to unlock AI perfection. Recently, a whitepaper from …