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I've thought about AI replacing me.

I'm in marketing & I've watched junior roles get swallowed up. Only a matter of time before mine is next.

I love creating a system for everything. The work moves faster, but it also makes my job easy to copy.

If your day runs on rules then chances are someone is building an app that does it. Or your coworker gets the raise & your responsibilities with it.

There are 2 prompts this week. The 1st scores how replaceable you are & what your labor rules cover when it happens (sometimes nothing).

The 2nd writes the script that gets you paid what the market says.

I love my frameworks. What I learned is what keeps me employed is the part that isn't in one.

Before you start

• Prompt 1 takes a couple of minutes to gather info and gives you a long answer.

• Prompt 2 can't use search reliably. The websites with the most accurate data don't allow scraping. The output is more accurate if you take a few minutes and gather the numbers yourself. The prompt tells you where to look.

• Write what you do honestly. Brutally honest. Include the boring parts and the social parts.

• And consider what your boss thinks you do, because that's ultimately the deciding factor.

Prompt 1: Find out if you can be replaced by AI

Write out what you did last week and paste it after the About me section.

I want to know how replaceable I am at work. Answer in under 700 words. No preamble. Do not restate my question and do not tell me how you plan to approach it. Start with the verdict.

About me:
- Job title:
- Industry:
- City and country:
- Years doing this:
- I am: an employee / self-employed or an owner
- Everything I did at work last week, as a plain list, boring parts included:
[PASTE YOUR WEEK]

Do these 6 things, in this order.

1. One line, no hedging: "You are hard to replace", "Parts of your job are already gone", or "Start moving now".
2. My week, line by line. Mark each item: a machine can do this today, a coworker with AI tools can do this today, or this still needs me. Name the specific tools. One sentence of reasoning each, no more.
3. Name the two jobs hiding in my week: the execution half and the judgment half. Tell me which one I'm actually paid for right now.
4. What's happening to my title where I live. Give me exactly two things: whether openings are growing or shrinking, and one real announcement of this work being automated. A link for each. Skip the industry news tour.
5. What losing this income costs where I live.
   If I'm an employee: required notice, whether severance is legally required at all, and how long people here stay unemployed. No data for my city or title? Use the closest bigger geography, label it, and move on. Don't apologize for it.
   If I'm an owner or self-employed: how concentrated my income is, what happens if my biggest client leaves, and how long replacing that revenue usually takes.
6. The uncomfortable paragraph. What I believe about my own value that the evidence doesn't support. Then 3 moves that change the answer, each one specific enough to start this week, each with a real date.

Every claim about my market needs a link. No link, no claim. Never tell me to upskill or network. Name the course, the tool, or the person.

Why it works: If you ask a model whether your job is safe, it answers based on what it knows about your job title. This prompt works from what you actually did during the week. Then it sorts those lines by what can be automated.

Step 3 surprised me. It separates your week into 2 parts. The first is the work you actually do. The second is you deciding what's worth doing. Software can take the first part. Deciding is why they keep you.

One gap: There's more data for big markets than small ones. Illinois severance law and a link to the state labor department came back in seconds. What it couldn't find was how long people in Chicago stay out of work. That number isn't published.

Simple fix: The prompt covers this in step 5. If there's no number for your city, the model has to use the closest bigger area and tell you it swapped.

When I tested it, the model used an Illinois average of 31.7 weeks. No source. So I added a line at the bottom of the prompt.

Prompt 2: Asking for the raise with researched salary data

Before starting, you should research 3 salary figures. The career sites with real data block scrapers. Once you give the figures to the prompt, it turns them into an outline you use to guide the conversation with your boss.

• Find 2 or 3 pay ranges from current job ads for your title, in your city. In the US, many states now require the range in the ad by law.

• What your salary is now.

• The salary you want.

Help me prepare to negotiate my pay. Work only with the numbers I give you. Do not estimate market rates yourself and do not add statistics from memory.

- What I do: [TITLE, INDUSTRY, CITY]
- What I make now:
- What I'm asking for:
- Posted ranges from job ads for my title in my city: [PASTE 2-3, WITH COMPANY]
- The situation: [RAISE AT MY CURRENT JOB / OFFER FROM A NEW COMPANY / PROMOTION]
- The best thing I did this year: [WHAT HAPPENED, AND THE DOLLARS, PERCENT OR HOURS IT MOVED]

Before anything else: if my achievement has no dollar figure, percentage or hours in it, stop and ask me questions until we find one. A count of clients or projects is not a number. Don't write a word of the script until we have it.

Then do 4 things.

1. Where my current pay and my ask sit inside the ranges I gave you. Tell me if my ask is too high. Tell me just as plainly if it's too low, and by how much. If this is a raise rather than a new offer, remind me that internal raises rarely clear 15 percent in one step, and give me both numbers: what to ask for now, and what it would take to reach the market range.
2. My opening, 4 sentences max, that I can say out loud. Lead with what I did and the number it moved, then my number. Banned words: fair, value I bring, proud, deserve, worth. If a sentence could be said by anyone else in the company, rewrite it.
3. My replies to "budget is tight", "that's above our range", and "let's revisit in 6 months". Short, and no two starting the same way.
4. My fallbacks if base pay won't move. For each one, tell me what it costs them and whether it's a real thing or a promise. Rank them by what I'd actually rather have, and tell me which one to refuse.

Why it works: Every number is one you researched and brought so you can cite a fact.

"Indeed says the average is X" gets waved away.

"Your competitor is offering 120 to 170 for this role, here's the post" doesn't. It's tough to argue against hard data.

Don't skip the conditional back-and-forth under the bullet list. The part where it keeps asking questions until your achievement has a number on it. The reason why is the proudest thing you did this year is probably a sentence, not a figure by itself, and the whole script is only as strong as that one number.

One gap: The counter that costs you money is a title bump with no raise attached. This prompt scripts the pay conversation. It doesn't create a script based on where you sit on the org chart.

Simple fix: If they offer the title instead of the money, go back to your replies in step 3, the ones written for "budget is tight." Say the same thing, point at the same pay range. A new title isn't an answer to the number.

What these prompts still can't do

They can't see inside your workplace.

No public data knows your team's budget, your manager's opinion of you, or that your department head quietly got told to cut headcount.

If the reorganization is already whispered about in the hallway, the prompts are behind.

Prompt 1 gets thinner the further you get from big English-speaking markets. It found an Illinois labor law and the state labor department on the first pass, then couldn't produce a single credible unemployment figure for a job title in a smaller city.

Make it show links and label its substitutions, and treat anything unsourced as a fairy tale.

A prompt that looks smart is easy to save and forget. One that shows its sources is the one you can actually act on.

This is the short version, sent to respect your time.

The full write-up, with one-click copy on every prompt, is on the site. Read it here.

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