Structuring your AI prompt

You've joined Payflow, a fintech startup, and inherited the payment processing module — a 15,000-line Python codebase. Your first task is to fix a bug in how refunds are calculated.

Before diving in, you want to use AI to help you understand how the system works. You've learned that structured prompts get better results than vague questions. A good prompt provides task context, states a clear goal, and describes the expected output.