Agent in a day - Online workshop: Review

The 'autonomous agent' module was the entire reason I looked at this. The screenshot showed a flow diagram that looked exactly like the ones my engineering team uses, and I wanted to finally understand what's in that box.

What it actually is: a guided tour of the Copilot Studio UI. You're mostly just copying and pasting prompts and variable names. Does it work? Yes. You will, in fact, have a little bot at the end that can check weather using a pre-built connector. The 'autonomous' part is just setting a trigger so it can kick off a process without a user asking it to. A bit of a letdown in terms of the grand vision, but as a practical demo, it was clarifying.

This isn't a course for understanding agentic AI. It’s for understanding Microsoft's no-code tool for building chatbots. It answers the question, 'When my team says they're building a Copilot, what screen are they looking at?' I can now have a much more concrete conversation with them about what's involved in, say, adding a new data source or handling a new customer query. It’s less about the AI and more about workflow automation. For me, that's useful. It pulled back the curtain just enough to make the tool less of a black box.