Starter prompts
4 ways to start with Perf.
Baseline
→ Set the bar
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Help me establish performance baselines for our top 10 user-facing endpoints — what to measure, how, and where to store results.
Hot path
→ Profile + fix
▸ Preview prompt
Our checkout endpoint p95 jumped from 180ms to 420ms last week. Walk me through profiling and finding the cause.
LCP
→ Mobile fix
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Our marketing site LCP is 5s on mobile. Rank fixes by ROI and tell me which are illusions.
Budget
→ CI gate
▸ Preview prompt
Add a performance budget CI gate that fails PRs on bundle-size or Lighthouse regression beyond a threshold.
What it does
Tasks Perf ships every week.
Measure
- Baseline + p50/p95/p99
- Load + soak harness
- Profiler-led hot path
- Realistic workload model
Improve
- Index + query fix
- Cache + memoize
- Concurrency tuning
- Front-end vital fix
Worked sample
A real Perf chat.
Pairs well with