Alexander

Azure & AI practitioner. Claude CLI, Copilot, OpenAI.
Shipping systems hands-on since before it was cool 🦕⚡☁️

[Alexander @AlexanderTrifo7]

Tired of typing like it's 1995? I ditched my keyboard and now write 4× faster with @wisprflow — AI turns my rambling speech into polished emails/docs/code instantly. Works in EVERY app.
Game-changer for productivity. https://t.co/sAMHJjGgME

[Daniel Bradley @DanielatOCN]

I've collated 2400+ Microsoft architecture icons and published them for easy access at https://t.co/C1Zv6sIkzn 💙

For every icon, you can:

• Download the scalable SVG file
• Download the PNG of your desired size
• Embed the icon directly into your website or markdown
• Choose a light, dark or transparent background

You can can even compare different icons together and favourite multiple icons for bulk download!

#Microsoft

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

good news: /goal in codex has solved all my problems
bad news: i'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs while the agents do all my bidding

it's no secret i'm a little bit obsessed with codex, and /goal is a big part of that.

i put together a 30m ep on /goal including:
- what it is
- how to write a good goal
- how to drive bug zero with @vercel @sentry and codex
- two non-technical use cases for goal, including cleaning up 4,000 emails over 4 hours

A HUGE thank you to our wonderful sponsor, @mercury - radically different banking loved by over 300K entrepreneurs: https://t.co/eQRKWOCxKh

[Brad Groux @BradGroux]

The wrong question is: "What can AI do for my business?"

That question is too big, too vague, and usually turns into tool shopping.

Ask this instead: "What work happened three times last week that annoyed someone?"

That’s where to start.

Recurring + annoying + rules-based = automation candidate.

Not everything needs an agent.
Not everything needs a new app.
Not everything needs a transformation project.

Sometimes the win is one clean workflow that gives a person 30 minutes back every morning.

Stack enough of those and the business changes. Start small, think big.

[John Capobianco @John_Capobianco]

Cisco just settled the argument.

CCNA v2.0: effective February 2027 - dedicates an entire domain to AI and Network Operations. Prompt engineering. Agentic AI. Evaluating what a network assistant tells you. Not a footnote. 10% of the exam.

And the CCIE? A new AI Deploy, Operate, and Optimize module embedded across every expert track. Data Center first in June 2027. Then Collaboration. Then Security, Service Provider, Enterprise, Automation, Wireless.

The gold standard certification in networking just told the industry: if you can't work with AI, you can't claim expertise in modern networks.

Four years.

That's how long I've been saying this - from stages, in posts, in conversations where people politely smiled and changed the subject. AI is not coming for networking. AI is the next layer of networking. The engineers who learn to orchestrate intelligent systems will design the networks. The engineers who refuse will troubleshoot them - for a while.

I'm not here to gloat. I'm here to point at the blueprint.

Here's where it gets uncomfortable: a lot of network professionals are looking at this announcement and quietly doing the math. Some of you have been building this skillset for years and just got handed a runway. Some of you have been resisting it and just got handed a deadline.

That's not a threat. That's a curriculum change.

To everyone who told me automation was a fad, AI was hype, and prompt engineering wasn't a "real" skill; Cisco disagrees. Every hiring manager who reads a blueprint before writing a job description disagrees.

You have until February 2027 to decide what kind of network professional you want to be in 2030.

Cisco frames it as Operator or Orchestrator.

Pick one.

I'm here to help. I've always been here to help. Itential is here to help. Did you notice the huge wave of infrastructure MCPs just in the past two weeks alone?

I'm so excited about the future of our industry. Imagine the impact having 10% of the CCNA about AI and the skills and tools the modern junior network engineer will be empowered with as a result? And the real experts the CCIE's of the world - they too will adapt and embrace these skills and have the force multiplying power of years of experience and real expert level qualifications *and* the ability to build digital coworkers; ReAct agents.

By 2030 we won't recognize the traditional operations today and yesterday. It will be as unrecognizable as RIPv2 or Frame Relay.

If you are not at the AI table you are on the AI menu - I think if you want to stay in this field the choice has just been made for you.

If AI is not your thing - well - maybe networking isn't the right field for you anymore.

Check my previous post about my availability in the Vibe Ops Lounge at Cisco Live or AutoCon5 if you want to have a serious discussion about this; your future; and if I can help in anyway

[Alexander @AlexanderTrifo7]

Hardware Pioneers Max 2026 I’m attending Hardware Pioneers Max 2026, the UK's largest event for the electronics, IoT, and embedded systems industry!

This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with engineering leaders and innovators.

Join me for insightful discussions and to discover the latest trends in smart and connected devices!

#Hpm26

[Merill Fernando @merill]

Folks, are you ready to start moving to Entra Cloud Sync?

I caught up with @Thomas_Live and @fabian_bader on the latest https://t.co/v0cFtrPykt episode to talk about this and other Entra news from the previous month.

Listen at https://t.co/2Ws59Z7SdF

[Alexander @AlexanderTrifo7]

Just grabbed the LAST Mac Mini in the London Apple Store! 🥳🏆
They’re officially gone. If you were thinking about one… too late mate 😂. @AlexFinn
#MacMini #AppleStoreLondon

[Sam Altman @sama]

codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try.

for the next 30 days, we are giving companies that want to try switching over two months of free codex usage.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

How to make $2,000,000 with AI this year:

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Everyone is talking about Hermes Agent, and for good reason

It is the most reliable AI agent on Earth right now

A 24/7/365 employee that never crashes

If you don't have one set up yet, you're missing out

This is your COMPLETE guide to Hermes Agent, from set up to use cases:

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

The greatest AI skill you can learn is Reverse Prompting

You have your AI ask YOU questions, to see what it can do for you

Makes every AI agent you use so much more powerful

An exercise you can do right now:

Open up any AI/OpenClaw/Hermes. Brain dump everything about yourself and your career/goals/ambitions. Then use this reverse prompt:

"Based on what you know about me and my goals, what is more information I can provide to you in order for you to be able to help me achieve my goals faster and take as much off my plate as possible"

Then once you enter that, prompt this:

"What tasks can you do for me right now to get us closer to our ambitions and goals?"

Guarantee you come up with 100x more things to do with your AI than you thought of before

The more questions you ask your AI, the more you'll learn and the more you'll get done.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing GPT-Realtime-2 in the API: our most intelligent voice model yet, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents.

Voice agents are now real-time collaborators that can listen, reason, and solve complex problems as conversations unfold.

Now available in the API alongside streaming models GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper — a new set of audio capabilities for the next generation of voice interfaces.

[Andrew Pla @AndrewPlaTech]

"Not a happy marriage." @jsnover on why .NET and Windows have never gotten along.

This clip has Bill Gates' obsession, the Longhorn disaster, Dave Cutler's backup tapes, and the day Notepad ballooned from 15KB to 15MB.

[AI Edge @aiedge_]

Dario Amodei:

"Claude is already designing the next version of itself. Not completely, but in many ways."

"Engineers aren't writing code anymore."

AGI is already here?

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED 13 FREE CLAUDE CERTIFICATIONS AND ALMOST NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT.

Not a YouTube playlist.

Not a third-party course.

Official certifications from the team that built Claude.

Free. Forever.

Here is the full list with links:

START HERE

01. Claude 101 — Learn Claude for everyday work
https://t.co/7y3hN0bL8Q

02. AI Fluency: Frameworks and Foundations
https://t.co/juausxFh7O

03. Introduction to Agent Skills
https://t.co/11ZlK1OaVC

FOR DEVELOPERS

04. Building with the Claude API
https://t.co/aJAciAEw3y

05. Claude Code in Action
https://t.co/c0norD7CU0

06. Intro to Model Context Protocol
https://t.co/iywBhaZn8Z

07. MCP Advanced Topics
https://t.co/y2XQ1snBl9

FOR EDUCATION AND NONPROFITS

08. AI Fluency for Students
09. AI Fluency for Educators
10. Teaching AI Fluency
11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits

FOR ENTERPRISE

12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock
13. Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI

13 courses. 6 skill levels. 5 audiences. 100% free forever.

The engineers getting hired at $150,000 to $300,000 to work with Claude at the highest level are learning exactly this material.

Anthropic's team just made it available to everyone.

Pro tip: Start with Claude 101 then go straight to Claude Code in Action. That is the fastest path from beginner to builder.

Bookmark this before you pay for another AI course.

Follow @cyrilXBT for every Anthropic resource that compounds your skills the moment it drops.

[Avid @Av1dlive]

In 14 minutes, this Anthropic engineer who created MCPs

will teach you more about building them right than

most developers figure out on their own in months.

bookmark this today

this guide is literally the exact 2026 playbook to build and sell mcps to make $10k/mo

[xAI @xai]

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → https://t.co/nfDR9S822L

[Cloudflare Developers @CloudflareDev]

"Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

Here's how it works in 4 minutes.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Code with Claude is happening now!

▪︎ 9:00AM - Keynote
▪︎ 10:30AM - What's new in Claude Code
▪︎ 11:15AM - Building on Claude at GitHub scale
▪︎ 12:00PM - Get to production faster with Managed Agents

All times PT. https://t.co/O4oygkSr2G