Question
You're building a paginated list endpoint in Go that serves rows from Postgres ordered by `created_at`. You want an AI agent to write the pagination utility — encoding/decoding a cursor and producing the `WHERE` clause and `LIMIT`. Write the prompt/spec, with constraints, edge cases, and acceptance criteria, that gets it correct first try. Explain what a casual prompt ("add pagination with offset and limit") would get wrong at scale.
Treat the AI’s output as a draft to verify, not an answer to trust. Name the specific flaw and the input that triggers it, say how you’d catch it — tests, edge cases, reading critically — and how you’d re-prompt or decompose to get it right.
Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.