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Automate repetitive tasks

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

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See the prompt↓All JavaScript tasks

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskWrite a script to automatically resize all images in the 'uploads' folder to 1280px width,…+
Write a script to automatically resize all images in the 'uploads' folder to 1280px width, maintaining aspect ratio, and save them to 'optimized_images' for the new product catalog, so they load faster on the website.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I run this image resizing script on all our product photos, make it more robust. It…+
Before I run this image resizing script on all our product photos, make it more robust. It needs to skip files that aren't images, log any errors to a file for review, and ensure it doesn't overwrite existing optimized images without explicit confirmation, because a mistake here could ruin hundreds of product shots and delay the catalog launch.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe new image optimization script I wrote is failing on about 10% of the product photos, just…+
The image optimization script I wrote is failing on some files, and I'm not sure why.
The new image optimization script I wrote is failing on about 10% of the product photos, just before the marketing team needs them for the Friday launch. It's throwing a generic error, and I can't tell if it's a file corruption issue, an unsupported format, or a memory problem. The marketing lead is already asking for the batch. What's the fastest way to diagnose why it's failing on specific files, and what's the best immediate workaround to get most images processed?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI'm constantly writing small automation scripts to handle data migrations or content updates,…+
I'm constantly writing one-off scripts that become unmanageable quickly.
I'm constantly writing small automation scripts to handle data migrations or content updates, but they're often fragile, poorly documented, and hard for anyone else to understand or modify later. This creates a huge bottleneck when new requirements come in. What habit should I change to ensure these automations are more maintainable and less of a future burden on the team, especially when I'm the only one who understands them?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from JavaScript's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.