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GitHub Copilot Desktop App Launches a New Era of AI Development: The Future of Coding Is Here
Artificial intelligence is changing the way software is created, and developers are entering a new chapter where coding is no longer just about writing lines of code. It is becoming a smarter, faster, and more collaborative experience. https://dellenny.com/github-copilot-desktop-app-launches-a-new-era-of-ai-development-the-future-of-coding-is-here/Wish I could ask Cowork about itself without it actually doing anything
Sharing this one to see if it lands for others using Cowork for governance, design, or any kind of multi-step work. I've started running Cowork sessions for things like Purview labeling design, Entra cleanup planning, and DLP policy scoping. The output is useful, but honestly the most valuable thing in those sessions is the path — what got considered, what got rejected, what trade-offs surfaced. Days or weeks later I want to come back and ask "why did we land here?" without Cowork picking the session back up and changing things. What I'd love to see is a read-only side Chat against a Cowork session. Full read access to the transcript, files, decisions, and artifacts — but zero write or action permissions. Just Q&A. There's also a credit angle that matters to me. If I'm just asking follow-up questions about what was already built, that's a research/read task — I don't want to spend Cowork session credits on it. Today I work around it by launching a regular Chat and pointing it at whatever documentation or artifacts I exported out of the Cowork session. It works, but the Chat doesn't have the full context — it only sees what I exported, not the actual session transcript, intermediate steps, or the paths Cowork considered and rejected. A built-in read-only Chat against the session itself would give me Chat-level efficiency with full Cowork context. The use cases for IT infrastructure architecture and governance work line up cleanly: Research follow-ups ("why X over Y?") Decision review ("what trade-offs were discussed?") Handoff and onboarding ("walk me through what was done") Audit and governance ("explain this outcome to a stakeholder") Cowork would essentially become a durable, queryable record of how complex work was done — not just what came out the other end. For anyone treating Cowork as a system of record for design and decisions, that's a big unlock. Is anyone else thinking about Cowork this way? And for those who have hit this — how are you handling the "explain what Cowork did" problem today? https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/2e7b6245-fa6c-f111-9b47-6045bdbd0989Multi-Agent Systems with Semantic Kernel: Beyond Single Copilots
The AI landscape is moving beyond the era of single assistants. Early AI applications focused on creating one powerful copilot that could answer questions, generate content, write code, and automate tasks. But as real-world use cases become more complex, a new architecture is emerging: multi-agent systems. https://dellenny.com/multi-agent-systems-with-semantic-kernel-beyond-single-copilots/
co-pilot and other AI platforms are horrible
I spent more than three hours trying to solve a problem sharing calendars. Co-pilot spun me around in circles. I understand that Microsoft fired many programmers and depend more on co-pilot. This is a huge mistake. after all of the hours, I gave up and now I will have to pay a human to solve my computer problem. I sincerely hope that someone in Microsoft, who has a connection to decision making, will read this a take it seriously. I have used Microsoft hardware and software for more than 40 years, all the way back to Anytime, Anywhere Learning as a trainer and presenter. Could a human who is not interested in corporate profit pay attention to this huge problem.Where is the Channel Agent ?
Hello everyone, I’m trying to test Channel Agents in Teams Preview: All prerequisites seem enabled on my tenant: • M365 Copilot license • Teams Public Preview • Channel Agents allowed • Copilot working in Teams But I still don’t see any option to add a Channel Agent to a channel. Has anyone successfully enabled it recently?25 Copilot Studio Agent Ideas You Can Build This Weekend
Artificial intelligence is no longer something only big technology companies can experiment with. Today, anyone can build smart AI assistants that solve real problems, automate repetitive work, and improve daily productivity. With tools like Microsoft Copilot Studio, creating your own AI agent has become easier than ever. https://dellenny.com/25-copilot-studio-agent-ideas-you-can-build-this-weekend/Anyone else hitting the "this Chat just became a Cowork job" wall?
Now that Cowork is GA, I've been using it a lot more in my day-to-day as an IT Infrastructure Architect, and one thing keeps tripping me up. I'll start a quick Copilot Chat for what feels like a one-shot question (scope a policy, sanity-check a PowerShell snippet, sketch a config), and three or four turns in I realize the work is actually multi-step. Exactly what Cowork was built for. But there's no bridge between the two. So, I'm stuck with two bad options: restart in Cowork and lose the context I just built up in Chat, or copy/paste fragments across and hope I didn't drop something important. The other thing that catches me is the credit cost. Chat is a lighter-weight place to explore, and that's where most of my early turns belong. Without a clean bridge, the temptation is to start everything in Cowork "just in case it gets complex," which burns session credits on work that often turned out to be simple. Or I restart Cowork mid-conversation and effectively re-run the same prompts twice. A one-click handoff lets me stay in Chat as long as it makes sense and only graduates to Cowork when the work actually warrants it. What I'd love to see is a simple "Open in Cowork" action in Chat that brings the conversation, referenced files, and any artifacts already produced into a fresh Cowork session, with my latest prompt as the starting task. Chat stays at the low-friction entry point, and Cowork picks up cleanly when the work grows up. Curious whether others are running into the same thing, and if anyone has found a workflow that handles this cleanly today. Always interested in how the broader community is solving for it. I created a User Feedback item for this if anyone wants to upvote it: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/448ca034-c36c-f111-9b47-6045bdbd0989Automating Technical Proposal Drafts Using Copilot: The Future of Smarter Proposal Writing
Technical proposals are an essential part of modern business. Whether a company is responding to a client request, competing for a major project, or explaining a complex solution, a well-written technical proposal can make the difference between winning and losing an opportunity. However, creating these proposals is often a time-consuming process that requires research, collaboration, technical knowledge, and careful attention to detail. https://dellenny.com/automating-technical-proposal-drafts-using-copilot-the-future-of-smarter-proposal-writing/Build Your First Autonomous Copilot Agent (Step-by-Step) Using Microsoft Copilot Studio
AI agents are changing how businesses automate daily work. In the past, building an intelligent assistant required developers, APIs, complex frameworks, and hundreds of lines of code. https://dellenny.com/build-your-first-autonomous-copilot-agent-step-by-step-using-microsoft-copilot-studio-almost-no-code/
Subject: Feature Request – Enable Copilot to Retrieve Full Article Content from External URLs
Subject: Feature Request – Enable Copilot to Retrieve Full Article Content from External URLs Dear Copilot Support Team, I am a frequent user of Microsoft Copilot and greatly appreciate its capabilities. Currently, Copilot is unable to retrieve article content directly from external websites such as note.com and exblog.jp when a URL is provided. Other AI services (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok) can read full article content simply by providing a URL, without requiring the user to manually paste the entire text. For long-form articles, manually copying and pasting the full content is extremely time‑consuming and impractical. Therefore, I would like to request the following improvements: • Enable Copilot to fetch and read full article content directly from URLs • Add support for major blogging platforms such as note.com and exblog.jp • Allow long articles to be analyzed without requiring manual text input I believe this enhancement would significantly improve usability and bring Copilot in line with other leading AI tools. Thank you very much for your consideration.
