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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 24/07/2026

Risk" vs. "Risk" vs. "Risk": Why AI Arguments Fail Before They Even Start www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07...

Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 24/07/2026

When 2 people vote "yes" on the same AI governance rule, leave the room, and fight for 2 years over implementation, it's because nobody agreed on the physics of what they were building. Stop fighting over labels. Debate the choices www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07...

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“Risk” vs. “Risk” vs. “Risk”: Why AI Arguments Fail Before They Even Start

Inigo Montoya once said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Ask members of the AI Triad if they want to reduce “risk.” They will al…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 21/07/2026

It highlights the point - AI as-is is unreliable.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 20/07/2026

LLM models are engines of bullshit. Your system does not have to be. That's a choice, and it's yours. Skip the engineering and you're shipping a bullshit system. Do the engineering and you're not. www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07...

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LLM Models Are Bullshit Engines

Your LLM System Doesn’t Have to Be Harry Frankfurt wrote a wonderful essay called On Bullshit. His central move is a distinction most people miss: the difference between a liar and a bullshit…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 07/05/2026

Super excited to share my work tomorrow with my fellow fellows & circle of friends at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard University. This project has totally consumed me. It feels less like doing a project & more like the project is a force of nature using me to be birthed.

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PSConfEU @psconf.eu · 17/04/2026

35 tickets left at €1,750 for #PSConfEU 2026. From 11 May, the same tickets go up to €1,950. No new releases—once sold out, that’s it. Join us in Wiesbaden, 1–4 June 🔗 psconf.eu #PowerShell #Automation #DevOps #Conference

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 30/03/2026

My talk at the PowerShell conference makes the point that developers do not care about Admins. That is why they produce ... things like this. That is why I designed PowerShell so you can clean up their ... work. (even though you shouldn't have to).

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 30/03/2026

It is metaphysically impossible to build a safe general-purpose chatbot. Not difficult. Not expensive. Impossible. A system with an infinite goal space cannot be made safe. That is a structural contradiction. New post: www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 14/03/2026

I saw those errors and thought - use it anyway - it captures the boof-a-rama 🤣

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 13/03/2026

Reminds me about what they say about second marriages - the triumph of Hope over experience. 🤣

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 13/03/2026

I saw that and thought about trying to fix it (though I don't know how) but then decided it fit the gestalt of the message. 🤣🤣

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 13/03/2026

#Microsoft and #Windows hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold. My blog: www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 11/03/2026

Decreased benefits and not keeping up with inflation.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 11/03/2026

I spent 8 years at hashtag#DEC watching the deal get worse. At first I thought it was just the economy. Then I reverse-engineered what was actually happening. It was a deliberate strategy. And I think you're going to see it again. New post: www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

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They Don’t Need to Fire You

In a recent post I mentioned that the deal engineers get is going to get worse over time, and I used my time at DEC as an example. I think it’s worth going deeper on that. What happened at DE…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 10/03/2026

The first 1/2 of my career was a deal. I was a consistent top performer at DEC for 8 years. One bonus: $800. That's what my dad's entire career looked like too. We've been living in very unusual times. SAVE EARLY / SAVE OFTEN.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 10/03/2026

Let's have the hard conversation about Engineering total compensation: A few years ago, we got an AWESOME deal. Now we have a GREAT deal. Soon we'll have a GOOD deal. Then... we'll have deal.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 03/03/2026

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that it is easy to get hight breathing your own exhaust.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 03/03/2026

If you are not occasionally overwhelmed by what is going on with AI, you are either: 1) Not paying attention. 2) Not understanding what you are seeing. 3) Made of much sturdier stuff than I.

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 03/03/2026

Scary Microsoft Lawyers Incident or Don’t be on the Wrong Side of Antitrust A major CEO aggressively demanded that Microsoft cancel the PowerShell and use their proprietary language. When I refused, he filed an antitrust complaint. Enter scary Microsoft Lawyers. www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03...

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Another Scary Microsoft Lawyers Incident or Don’t be on the Wrong Side of Antitrust

I’ll never forget the day the world stopped. I picked up the phone and heard: “Hello. This is LCA. I’m calling to inform you that you are the subject of a formal investigation into anti-trust viola…

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Hassan Habib @hassanhabib.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sat down with @jsnover.com the inventor of PowerShell. We talked about being demoted for believing in an idea, architecting systems that last, and why AI should empower people and not replace them. Technology isn’t about tools. It’s about impact. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzu...

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"I Was Demoted for Inventing PowerShell" – Jeffrey Snover

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 16/02/2026

The celebration lasted exactly sixty seconds. Then the scary Microsoft lawyer walked in and promised to help the feds prosecute us if we leaked the deal. That generated clarity. #Respect www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...

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Scary Microsoft Lawyers – Part 1

I had a few encounters with Microsoft lawyers that were, in a word, scary. But in a good way. Every time I worked with them, they were hardcore on following the law, and I greatly appreciated and r…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 12/02/2026

What it takes to become a Senior Technical IC www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10...

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 10/02/2026

A story from early #PowerShell days when my sense of diplomacy was strictly "pre-operational." I asked my new boss—a 20-year Windows veteran with a Physics PhD—if he was an idiot because neither of us could debug a thrashing system using GUI tools. www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...

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The Time I Asked My Boss: Are You An Idiot?

A Microsoft engineer recently told me he used Copilot to script a way out of a laggy system. He was delighted. The story triggered a memory from the early days of PowerShell when my diplomacy was c…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 06/02/2026

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 05/02/2026

Success in software isn't just about shipping—it’s about knowing when the market is actually pulling your product. That pull is measurable. A new look at the equations that drive sustainable growth: www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...

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Product Market Fit is Math

I have a lot of conversations where teams toss around the concept of Product Market Fit (PMF) like it’s a vibe. We all pretend to get the gestalt of it, but usually, we’re just guessing. Here are e…

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Jeff Hicks @jdhitsolutions.com · 02/02/2026

Less than 70 days until the #PowerShell Global Summit. Don't put off getting tickets. Then let everyone know you are attending. www.powershellsummit.org/tickets/

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 02/02/2026

Absolutely. I'm doing KEYNOTES in Seattle, Paris, an Germany

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 02/02/2026

"In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine. Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day. Your job is to find the rose petals." www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02...

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Welcome to the Room

A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella When I was Promoted to Technical Fellow, I was “invited to the room”, joining Microsoft’s other Senior Executives. It was really something. Achieving the Se…

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 22/01/2026

Ha! That was such a good time! 2 weeks that the Standard Of Business Conduct training had a scenario of some guy getting fired for dancing on a table. I was paranoid for months!

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 22/01/2026

Getting on coreclr was a game changer - allowed us to move to Linux and Open Source. It was huge

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 22/01/2026

That was a great tour! Do you remember that I had the room where the curtains opened up to a concrete wall? Such a strange place!

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 21/01/2026

It was my great pleasure!

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 21/01/2026

Thank you for your kind words Andrew!

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Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com · 06/01/2026

Think Windows Vista was bad? You should know the story behind the story. How a brilliant business strategy turned into a technical Boof-a-Rama!

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