Everyone Wants to Build a Copilot Agent. Almost Nobody Should.
· 5 min read
The pitch is intoxicating. Open Microsoft 365 Copilot, describe in two sentences what you want, upload a couple of files, and thirty seconds later you have an agent. Your own little AI, wired into your SharePoint, ready to answer questions and do things. 🪄
So of course everyone wants one. The business wants a chatbot for the knowledge base. The pro-maker wants a flow that validates quotes. The developer wants a multi-agent orchestrator with their own model. Three people, three times the word "agent", three completely different products.
And here is the uncomfortable part: letting all of them just... build one, whenever they like, is a genuinely bad idea. 🧑🔬