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Dec 5, 2025
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13 min read
Writing a weekly newsletter for one year has been a journey indeed. One thousand hours later, what have I learned about the tech world that I cover — and myself?
Nov 28, 2025
16 min read
Text-based chat won't be the only interface for AI. Combining the "GenUI" ability of LLMs with structured data from existing apps via MCP could become a winning formula.
Nov 14, 2025
17 min read
With helpful AI assistants everywhere, we are running out of excuses to not write code. Here are my experiences on what removing this boundary means and what we should think about before letting AI write code for us.
Nov 7, 2025
18 min read
Power Apps promised a "no cliffs" experience for business apps development. Copilot agents promise to generate code with AI and... then what? How do we take it further?
Oct 23, 2025
24 min read
Remember how we were all supposed to have a team of agents working for us by now? "A decade of agents" is a more realistic take than 2025 claimed by Microsoft et al.
Oct 15, 2025
26 min read
Microsoft 365 Copilot paying customers can now create actual cloud flows by prompting an agent. With plenty of caveats and issues left to resolve, based on the Frontier preview.
Oct 2, 2025
20 min read
The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.
Sep 16, 2025
14 min read
Microsoft's decision to bundle two different AI agent technologies under the Copilot Studio brand makes it even harder for admins and developers to figure out the technical details of Copilot agents.
Sep 11, 2025
7 min read
Formerly known as Copilot Actions. Formerly orchestrated by Power Automate. This current feature that is NOT called "an agent" has some interesting characteristics worth exploring.
Aug 27, 2025
The memes tried to warn us about the GenAI bubble. In August 2025, the world still doesn't have AGI and people are getting increasingly anxious about the hyped expectations vs. market reality.
Aug 22, 2025
11 min read
Cloud flows are starting to feel like a legacy feature that is ripe for being "reimagined" into a new automation offering for the era of agentic AI. (Whatever that means.)
Aug 15, 2025
Where is he/she coming from and what is the secret mission of Agent 365? I bet this mission is all about finding a new commercial model beyond per-seat SaaS licensing.
Aug 1, 2025
9 min read
When everyone talks about agentic AI, it's all too easy to forget how AI assistants like Copilot today can't be trusted to do things for us - if it involves anything more than talk.
Jul 24, 2025
4 min read
AI is not just about cold, hard data. LLMs are narrative building machines that may take you for a wild ride unless you remember to reset the context of the chat.
Jul 11, 2025
3 min read
The answer to efficient human-AI collaboration may not be yet another proprietary Copilot integration. It could be a simple markup language that doesn't lock us into any specific workflows.
Jul 4, 2025
Why people feel they want to make different choices than what Microsoft and the corporate IT department would want them to choose.
Jun 19, 2025
Apps, Agents & Anxiety. Jukka chats with Steve Mordue about Copilot hype, partner survival, and where their views on AI (predictably) diverge.
May 30, 2025
5 min read
How Microsoft could "change the game" of AI agents by simply changing what they are calling features in their existing products.
May 22, 2025
Satya Nadella's "burn the ships" directive to his inner circle signals total commitment to AI - but at what cost to current customers relying on MS business apps?
May 13, 2025
The seven persistent sins of vendors that sell their platforms for serious low-code developers out there. Microsoft, ServiceNow, OutSystems, and the rest.
Apr 28, 2025
8 min read
Where did Microsoft Dataverse come from originally and how its role (and name) has changed along that journey?
Apr 15, 2025
10 min read
Copilot agents should be ready to take on real work tasks by now. Microsoft's UI mess keeps discouraging the use of AI for anything of importance.
Apr 2, 2025
Power Platform enterprise application templates are getting pushed aside in the age of Copilot.
Mar 19, 2025
Why would makers and developers adopt low-code GUI tools now that AI can generate endless amounts of code - sometimes based on nothing but "vibes".
Mar 3, 2025
Using Copilot for view filters and charts in model-driven Power Apps: not a revolutionary feature, yet necessary evolutionary step towards proper AI agents.
