2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering in your editor for Software Engineers

Tiny prompt tricks with big impact, backed by experience

If you’re a software engineer in 2025, you should be using Agent Mode in your editor, either in VSCode, Cursor, or Windsurf. It’s by far the single biggest productivity boost I’ve ever experienced.

If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s a more advanced ChatGPT in your editor that can understand your codebase, answer questions, write features for you, write te…