Ken Bonny

Software craftsman specialising in Microsoft technology

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@claudeai You sent me this email last Friday. Unfortunately, I don't speak French. Not sure why you would use French. Is this important?

[Jonathan Loeys 🏳️‍🌈 @JLoeys]

#DeMol
Ken wanneer hij voor het eerst met Barbie in bed duikt:

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@DanielSalomZ @1Password Yeah, I'm from Belgium and I would love to have my data better protected by EU laws.

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

Hey @1Password, I see you allow corporate customers to store their data in EMEA region (Frankfurt to be specific). Can family accounts also choose where to store their data?

I would like to store my data in Frankfurt as well. 😀

[Muwaffaq Elbadawi @MuwaffaqBadawi]

I can't stress this enough but .NET is a topper

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@esrtweet And now I have to live with it (maybe not for long) because there is no money to rework the system but the business needs to keep it running as it's the backbone of an important part of the business. It works "well enough" for them, but it's a nightmare to keep running.

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@esrtweet Instead they built on top of them. One of the devs who was there for most of its lifetime says they tried to stop the architect, but he used his political influence to silence anyone who did not agree with him. I'm terrified of what such a guy can do with an ai backing him.

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

This is why I love @vivaldibrowser, they take security and privacy seriously. I bet they have a decent password manager, but I want to use @1Password and this browser lets me do just that.

[harry @Harrris0n]

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[James Montemagno @JamesMontemagno]

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@RyanRodemoyer2 Follow up side-effects (db saves, network calls, sending messages) need to be done by the use-case again.

[Ken Bonny @bonny_ken]

@RyanRodemoyer2 As long as it doesn't produce a side-effect (network calls, file system saves, date-time lookups, random number generation), it's ok. All those side effects should be injected into the static/pure function from the use-case.