This is how I learn a new AI tool without watching a single tutorial. Each day you ask the tool one question and let it do the teaching. By Friday you have one prompt that works on your real work, and you use it again next week.
In the video I said to comment WEEK. This is that guide. It works in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini or any other AI tool you've just signed up for.
I'm new to you. What are the five things people like me use you for the most? I'm a [your job, for example a bakery owner] and most of my week goes on [your main tasks]. For each one, show me an example of what I'd type.
How can you help me achieve this task when [the result you want] is the desired outcome? The task is [a real task you need to finish this week]. Ask me any questions you need first, then walk me through it one step at a time.
What are you bad at, and where do people get burned using you? Keep it specific to the work I'm doing with you: [your task]. For each one, tell me how I'd spot the problem and how to check your answer.
Look at how I've been prompting you in this chat. What should I do differently? Give me your top three changes, then rewrite my weakest prompt the way you'd want me to write it.
Ask the tool to teach you, then use it on real work. My plan takes five days: on Monday you ask it what people like you use it for most, on Tuesday you try one of those things on a task you have to finish this week, and by Friday you save the one prompt that worked.
Ask it what it's good for. Type: I'm new to you. What are the five things people like me use you for the most? Tell it your job and your main tasks so the answer fits your work, and ask for an example prompt for each of the five.
Ask it directly: What are you bad at, and where do people get burned using you? Name the task you're using it for, so the answer is specific to your work. Ask how you'd spot each problem and how to check the answer, then use that as your checklist before you trust its work.
Ask the AI to grade your prompts. In the chat where you've been working, type: Look at how I've been prompting you. What should I do differently? Ask it to rewrite your weakest prompt, compare the two, and save the version that gets you a better answer.
A prompt that turns your best prompt from the week into a fill-in-the-blanks template you can reuse, and a five-question check that tells you whether this tool earns a spot in your week.
Here's the prompt that worked best for me this week: [paste your prompt] Turn it into a template I can reuse. Put [brackets] around every part that changes from one use to the next, and keep everything else word for word. Under the template, write one line on when to use it and one example of it filled in for a different task.
I've used you for one week. Help me decide whether to keep using you. Ask me these five questions one at a time and wait for each answer: 1. Which task did you help with this week, and how long would it have taken me on my own? 2. Did I have to fix your answers, and how much? 3. Would I use the prompt I saved again next week? 4. What does this tool cost me each month? 5. Is there a task I gave you that another tool I already pay for could do? Then tell me plainly: keep it, try it for one more week on a different task, or drop it. Give me your reason in two sentences.
Start the next tool on a Monday and run the same five days. After a few weeks, your Prompts that work note becomes the place you start every AI task.
Prompts, step-by-step guides and checklists you can put to work today.