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We all are hearing how Agentic AI is taking care of specific tasks, acting independently. A tool here, a tool there, are promising the way tasks are handled, threatening to replace humans. Microsoft, which missed a few buses over the last two decades in the tech space, seems to have decided not to miss this opportunity.
While some of the new announcements made by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella could well advance the way developers and companies use AI and GenAI in developing, delivering and managing IT applications. However, it could adversely impact jobs, particularly those writing code. While the number of people who code for a particular project will come down, those who supervise the code developed by Agentic AI will require newer skills to check the code.
They should learn proper prompt engineering techniques to elicit the right, fool-proof code.
They also require developers and IT pros to acquire newer skills to handle the new Agentic AI tools that can be taken off the shelf by developers and companies from the ‘Agent Store’.
Tools like GitHub Copilot, driven by Agentic AI, are now able to act as peer programmers, performing tasks such as bug fixing and code refactoring without intervention.
Some of the announcements included Copilot Tuning, which can train models and create agents using company data in a simple, low-code way with Copilot Studio. It also launched multi-agent orchestration capabilities, enabling agents to collaborate with each other, so they can tackle more complex work together, without manual intervention.
It was a kind of AI ‘agentication’ across GitHub, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Windows.
“Therefore, commodity work, which is dominant in Indian based delivery, will be under threat. But the interesting work of building AI applications and agents will become more interesting. These tools allow a single shop developer to build their own companies and create value for clients,” Yugal Joshi, partner, Everest Group, said.
Though all of them were important, the critical immediate ones were the evolution of Github CoPilot agent and more features in CoPilot Studio.
From India’s vantage point, this meant continuing to learn and unlearn. “No tech professional can ever be fully prepared for these developments and therefore needs to keep upskilling themselves,” he pointed out.
“Microsoft will provide the needed help, training, and even funding to its partners to upskill their talent. Microsoft’s move also substantiates the growing concern of these developments impacting a number of people needed to do a specific task,” he said.
Jason Wong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, felt that the agentic web technologies that Microsoft was introducing painted “a compelling vision for open interoperability but we are still very early in the primordial soup of agentic standards for enterprises to make sure bets.
The Indian outsourcing firms should evaluate how agentic AI could be disruptive to their business models. Although, they can take advantage by pivoting their development teams to an agent-first approach to augment and accelerate their teams.
Published on May 20, 2025
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