Automation
Script the thing you do every Monday
The same file shuffle, every week, by hand.
Every week I [DESCRIBE THE TASK] on files that look like [DESCRIBE]. Write me a script to do it. I am on [WINDOWS/MAC] and I am not a programmer — give me the exact steps to run it and tell me how to test it safely on copies first.
Automation
Understand the file someone left behind
You inherited it and nobody documented it.
Explain what this does, in plain language, to someone who is not an engineer: [PASTE]. Then list what would break if the input changed, and the three things worth checking before I trust it.
Automation
Decode the error message
Something red appeared and you have no idea what it wants.
I got this error: [PASTE]. I was trying to [WHAT YOU WERE DOING] in [TOOL]. Tell me in plain language what it means, the most likely cause given what I was doing, and the fix. If you need to know something about my setup to be sure, ask me before guessing.