“Microsoft is adding features that let workers describe what they want in a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file in a Copilot prompt.

Why it matters: Generative AI can now do the heavy lifting of finding data and building documents, which Microsoft is calling "vibe working."

State of play: Microsoft is offering two ways into the new capabilities.

"Agent Mode" in Excel and Word, with PowerPoint coming soon, lets people get AI help inside the app.

A separate "Office Agent" in Copilot creates PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, with Excel support coming soon.

The new features are available first on the web-based versions of Office, with plans to add them to desktop apps.”

neXt Curve’s Take:

I just got off a call with an ISV and agentic AI is nowhere near ready for this level of fire-and-forget white-collar automation. It looks great in presentations. Very few real production deployments. There are projects and POCs that will likely fail as they probably started off with the wrong assumptions and exaggerated thesis of value.