From habit to system
Keep the three steps next to your computer, and see how to turn them into a system that runs every time you work with an agent.
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You have the three steps now. Save them, share them, or print them and keep them next to your computer:
How do you know it's right? Check a few rows by hand. Try to make it fail. Reconcile with a number you already know.
They work for a formula a chat gave you, for the table an agent handed you, and for your own work. The rules don't change with whatever produced the result.
From habit to system
Doing the three steps once, by hand, is a habit. It saves this week's spreadsheet. But what you do without thinking, you can't hand off to anyone, not even to AI.
The next step is to write it down: what you check, what numbers you reconcile against, which edge case you always test, what you know about your data that nobody else does. Once it's written, an agent can read it at the start of every session, and the checks run every time, not just when you remember.
That question, how do you know it's right?, is at the center of my course on AI for data. It's not an Excel course. You work with an AI agent on your computer, first with public data and then with your own. There you run the two agents' question yourself with the real file and see what yours does. You already know how to do your job, and you already check your work all the time. AI is one more tool, one that helps you use the others, and with it what you know goes further. In the course you learn to check what it does and to write down the rules you follow without thinking. Your Maestro adapts to your level and your work. For now it costs one dollar.
A song to close
And since I've been listening to a lot of Timbiriche lately (a Mexican '80s pop band), I asked my Maestro to explain the part about checking the numbers an agent gives you as an '80s pop song. You can listen to it here.