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HydraFusion isn't another model. It orchestrates them. For each prompt, Copilot can choose Single, Cascade, or Critique, then set reasoning effort per step. Read the docs: docs.github.com/en/early-acc…
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Better reasoning does not fix stale evidence. Web IQ ranks passages with provenance, giving agents current, citable context without feeding them whole pages. Audit the evidence path before tuning the model. techcommunity.microsoft.com/… #AIAgents #RAG
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Copilot's biggest shift is not better chat. It is moving from "What can I ask AI?" to "What work can I give AI?" Cowork, Code and Autopilot make delegation, building and persistent work part of the model. Which matters most to your org? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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MCP governance does not stop at the admin console. It has to reach the gateway. Agent 365 defines access decisions. Azure API Management enforces them when agents call MCP tools. Where should MCP enforcement live in your stack? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Good Azure automation should make approval harder to skip, not easier. The Canvas authoring starter keeps subscription choice explicit and defaults to read-only behavior until a write is approved. Where would you put the approval boundary? developer.microsoft.com/blog…
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An "agent-friendly" change can make agents worse. A CLI's JSON mode cut Claude Haiku 4.5 from 5/5 deployments to 2/5, while task cost rose 4x to 11x. Best practices stay hypotheses until measured. What have you tested instead of assumed? developer.microsoft.com/blog…
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AI can do more implementation. It still cannot own the outcome. As agents write code, tests, and docs, developer value shifts to framing problems, reviewing output, and making tradeoffs. Where must human judgment stay? #AICoding github.blog/ai-and-ml/ai-is-…
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Terraform can provision Foundry and still leave one manual gap: the hosted agent. azapi_data_plane_resource closes it by managing the agent on Foundry's data plane while the project stays on ARM. Where do you draw that IaC boundary today? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Database teams do not need more signals. They need a shorter path to action. Database Hub in Fabric links findings to affected resources and the right native tool, without moving the databases. Where does your ops workflow lose context? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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An AI coding agent saying "fixed" is not proof the software works. The review loop matters: inspect the diff, run the tests, verify the app, check the PR. What evidence do you require before accepting an agent's change? developer.microsoft.com/blog…
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An AI coding agent saying "fixed" is not proof the software works. The review loop matters: inspect the diff, run the tests, verify the app, check the PR. What evidence do you require before accepting an agent's change? developer.microsoft.com/blog…
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Multimodal AI can automate documentation without automating approval. This Azure workflow turns assembly video into reviewed work instructions and reports up to 70% shorter creation cycles. Where would you require the human approval gate? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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The next AI agent fix may be hiding in a pattern, not one trace. Foundry can surface recurring behaviors and optimize instructions, skills, tools, and model choices. Join the AMA: aka.ms/FoundryFriday-Optimiz…
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MCP's biggest win is not smarter AI. It is fewer one-off integrations. 3 AI apps x 3 systems = 9 connections to maintain. MCP replaces that tangle with a shared protocol. Which system would you expose first through MCP? techcommunity.microsoft.com/… #MCP
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A prompt that says "ask first" is not an approval control. @lee_stott shares if an agent can write to a real system, the runtime must pause, collect a decision, then resume or reject that exact operation. Where is your approval gate enforced today? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Permission prompts are not a security boundary. KARS puts control outside the agent: no direct egress, separate router-held credentials, policy and audit. The key shift is architectural containment. Where is your trust boundary? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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The best-looking image model can still be the wrong production model. Gallery samples show the ceiling. Production depends on the floor: prompt adherence, spatial reasoning, safety, bias, latency. What failure would disqualify it? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Smarter agents won't finish workflows if the last step lives in a browser. Microsoft's Playwright Workspaces remote MCP server adds 22 browser tools and an observe-act-verify loop. Where does your automation still hit a browser-only wall? techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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