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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.

3prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskApply a year-over-year growth formula to the monthly revenue data in the Q4 sales dashboard.…+
Apply a year-over-year growth formula to the monthly revenue data in the Q4 sales dashboard. Calculate it for each product line and display it as a percentage change next to the current month's revenue.
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 share this Q4 sales dashboard with the executive team, make the year-over-year growth…+
Before I share this Q4 sales dashboard with the executive team, make the year-over-year growth figures more impactful. Emphasize the product lines with the highest growth and flag any that are underperforming compared to last year's Q4, suggesting a clearer visual cue for these trends.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI just applied the year-over-year growth formula to the Q4 sales dashboard, and the numbers for…+
I just applied the year-over-year growth formula, and the numbers for two key product lines are showing negative growth, which contradicts what our sales team is reporting.
I just applied the year-over-year growth formula to the Q4 sales dashboard, and the numbers for two key product lines are showing negative growth, which completely contradicts what our sales team is reporting on the ground. The VP of Sales is reviewing this in the morning, and I'm worried about presenting incorrect figures. I can't ask the sales team to re-verify everything right now. What's the likely diagnosis for this formula discrepancy, and what's the best next move to quickly identify the error or validate the numbers?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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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 Google Looker'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.