Jeffrey Snover

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.

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.

Fellowship at Harvard Law School I’ve always had a stone in my shoe about being a college dropout.  As such, I never imagined I’d be walking into Harvard Law School as anything other than someone who needed directions t…

I've always had a stone in my shoe about being a college dropout. So naturally, I just became a Fellow at Harvard Law School.
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In my conversation with Jeffrey Snover on Coffee and Open Source, I asked him "If you were to build an LLM prompt to create PowerShell, what would it be?" The answer will surprise you. Full episode be... TikTok video by Isaac Levin

In my conversation with @jsnover.com on @coffeeandopensource.com, I asked him "If you were to build an LLM prompt to create PowerShell, what would it be?" The answer will surprise you.
#powershell #tech #technology
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One of the challenges of being a CEO is that it is easy to get hight breathing your own exhaust.

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.

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…

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.

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"I Was Demoted for Inventing PowerShell" – Jeffrey Snover YouTube video by Hassan Habib

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.

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The Physics of Misunderstanding: When “Gaze” Almost Cost Me My Career Technology is easy but people are hard. In particular, communications are hard. They’re the physics of human interaction—the $F=ma$ of how we get things done—and when the forces don’t align, …

That time I thought Perry Clarke was going to fire me....
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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…

In the trenches of shipping actual products, clarity is a gift—even when it's delivered as a threat of criminal prosecution.
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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…

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
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What it takes to become a Senior Technical IC
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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…

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.
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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…

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:
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Less than 70 days until the #PowerShell Global Summit. Don't put off getting tickets. Then let everyone know you are attending.
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Absolutely.
I'm doing KEYNOTES in Seattle, Paris, an Germany

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…

"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."
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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…

"Congratulations …. your days of whining are over."
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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…

WELCOME TO THE ROOM: Satya Nadella's Lesson in Executive Accountability

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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!

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

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!

Thanks!

It was my great pleasure!

🤣

Thank you for your kind words Andrew!

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Retired.
Thanks for all the fish!