Year: 2026 4 posts
Autopilots: agents with their own mailbox, Teams account and boss
Most agents live behind a chat box. You open a web app or Copilot, type a question, get an answer and close the tab. That's fine for questions. It's less fine for work that arrives by email at 7am, needs a look at a PDF, and should be answered in the same thread before anyone…
Always-on assistants that are asleep most of the day
I wanted an assistant that is always there. I write to it at 7am and the answer is ready at 7:01. It remembers what I told it last week. I don't have to start it, and I don't have to explain myself again.
Building Event-Driven Agents with Azure Functions
Microsoft now has several ways to build AI agents. You can create prompt agents in Foundry, build agentic workflows with Logic Apps, or deploy your own agent code as a Foundry hosted agent. There is another option that fits a different type of problem: the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime. This runtime lets you define…
Hosting an AG-UI Agent on Microsoft Foundry
A while back I wrote about building an AI agent server with AG-UI and the Microsoft Agent Framework. That post walked through what AG-UI is, how you stand up a small agent server, and how a web client talks to it. Quick recap before we move on: AG-UI is a protocol between a frontend and…
