Get started with Copilot for Microsoft Power Platform: Review

The 'Use Copilot in Power Apps' unit is where it fell apart. You read a paragraph, look at a GIF of someone else typing a prompt, and then click 'Continue.' No lab. No sandbox. No moment where you actually try to build the app described. It’s the equivalent of learning to drive by watching a video of someone else’s hands on the steering wheel.

I get the target audience. It's for people like me—non-devs who are supposed to be empowered by these tools. But empowerment isn't just knowing a feature exists; it's understanding its limits and how to work with it. The entire path feels like an extended marketing deck. It says you can 'build an app to track inventory' by describing your needs. It doesn't tell you what happens when Copilot misunderstands 'inventory,' or what kind of data table you need prepped beforehand, or how to debug the flow it generates.

My team is constantly hearing about low-code solutions. My job is to figure out if we can actually use them to solve a business problem without pulling in three engineers. This course gave me the vocabulary to sit in a meeting with a Microsoft vendor. It did not give me the confidence to go back to my team and say, 'I have an idea, and I've built a rough prototype to show you.' It's all sizzle, no steak. I now know what the buttons are called, but I still don't know how to cook.