Alessandro Appiani

IT Consultant & Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Expert, Microsoft MVP Alumni, Speaker on Microsoft Technologies since 1996

[Marco Russo @marcorus]

This dad making a sandwich with his kids' instructions is basically what happens when people use an LLM, and something goes wrong.
Kid says, "Put the peanut butter on the bread.” Dad stabs the jar into the loaf. Kid loses it. But he did what was asked.

Inexperienced people keep running into this with DAX formulas. It runs, the number comes out, looks fine. Nobody checks it. Two weeks later, someone asks why the report doesn't match finance, and the answer is often the same: the formula did what you told it, not what you meant.
People think the hard part of using AI is making it work. It's not. It's realizing you left something out of the instructions that you thought was obvious. A person would have asked, "Wait, what do you mean by last year?” The machine (often) just picks one and goes.
The annoying part is that to write a prompt that gives you the right formula, you already need to understand the problem well enough to write it yourself. At that point, you're saving time on typing, not on thinking.
I don't have a good answer for what someone starting from zero should study right now. The fundamentals still matter, though. If you understand the concepts and the semantic model, you can check what comes out. 
If you can't check it, you're the kid watching the sandwich fall apart. 

Video credits: "Exact Instructions Challenge" by Josh Darnit on Youtube.

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@acjuelich @NathanMcNulty It should be a lot easier to have "require Entra Joined device" and not only Hybrid or Compliant in Conditional Access Grant action

[Адский Реактор @Reaktorrr1]

@LinuxHandbook With all respect, Dave Cutler should be in the same group of super geeks alive. He created so many OS'es that he himself can't count. :D

[Linux Handbook @LinuxHandbook]

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡

Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲

He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.

He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.

That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.

Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥

And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.

Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

Si comincia! Buona #wpc2024 a tutti! @OverNetE @ilsensa7 @marco_parenzan

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

https://t.co/nvidKnKLHL

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@Xenoulis1 @merill In my opinion M365 Admin should provide overview and BASIC management, while specialized portale giove ADVANCED management. M365 admin Is primarily used by SMB which do not pay for Entra P1, so the telemetry numbers. Group-based licensing is an advanced feature used by Enterprise

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@Xenoulis1 @merill applying duplication principle you should remove user management from entra too. And quit specialized admin portal.

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@merill When I see this kind of implementation I actually ask myself "but in Microsoft someone DESIGN and THINK about features and changes?". Or Just "code and release" and eventually will fix?

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@merill Well, it's a nightmare. A feature which name Is "Group-based licensing" cannot be managed by group. All admins use that to ASSIGN A SET OF LICENSES to a group creating "Profiles" of users!

[Alex Simons @Alex_A_Simons]

Have to admit that this made me laugh...

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@woloski Ciao Vittorio, RIP 💔

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@davidfowl HP Time-Shared BASIC. I was at Computing school, first day, 1979 :)
https://t.co/051td735Oa

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@markrussinovich When a MacOS version?😍

[Alex Simons @Alex_A_Simons]

Today's BIG news: Microsoft Entra External ID's just went public preview. We've unified the capabilities of Azure AD and Azure AD B2C into a single, easy to use, developer platform! Get started here (this time with the correct link): https://t.co/65NwcFRPru

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@Grady_Booch @bcoskun_xyz I'd like to have your presentation too thanks!

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@TheoryofMind1 @Grady_Booch New??? Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956...
https://t.co/ITlPVbMVHQ

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@shanselman @tweetsperdidos @GOGcom I just want to open my PowerPoint deck I presented in one of my first conference in 1998

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

Grande Andrea!

[Andrea Mennuni @setol0]

Ehi ma sono io!

[Alessandro Appiani @AlexAppiani]

@CarloCalenda A me piacerebbe sapere perché dopo aver sbandierato la "diversità" di Azione nel parlare concretamente di programmi, un giorno si e l'altro pure lei twitta "contro" denigrando gli avversari, come fanno tutti... dove è il nuovo modo di fare politica???