Question

A developer asks Copilot Chat in a single prompt: "Refactor this legacy 800-line payment module to use dependency injection, add unit tests, fix the currency rounding bug, update the README, and migrate it to async/await." The response is partial and inconsistent, addressing only some of the tasks well. Following prompt engineering best practices, what is the most effective adjustment?

Accepted Answer

Break the work into a sequence of smaller, focused prompts—each targeting one goal—and use the conversation to build on prior results

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Repeat the identical prompt several times and merge the best fragments from each response manually

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Add the phrase "do everything carefully and completely" to the end of the prompt to signal higher effort

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Paste the entire file twice in the prompt so Copilot has more context to work with