What finally made TypeScript types at an API boundary click for me
Sharing the wording because it gave me something I could check instead of a confident wall of text.
Help me replace hopeful casts with validation and useful failure messages. Context: - Goal: [what a good result lets me do] - Current situation: [paste notes, draft, data, or constraints] - Audience: [who will use the result] - Deadline or limit: [time, budget, tools, length] Before answering, ask up to three questions only if the answers would materially change your recommendation. Otherwise, sta
This is usable as written. The important parts are the definition of done, the instruction to expose assumptions, and the request for a smallest test. For TypeScript types at an API boundary, I would start with these checks: - Reproduce the failure before changing code - Keep the patch smaller than the diagnosis - Write the rollback before deployment If you share real material, remove anything private first and replace bracketed fields with concrete details.