Adam Saxton

Christ Follower, Principal PM @Microsoft working on #MicrosoftFabric including #PowerBI.

[Guy In A Cube @GuyInACube]

The new Power BI Desktop Bridge changes the agent game! 🤖

Marthe's AI agent told her the Power BI report was pink.

It was in fact blue. 💙

That's been the problem with AI + Power BI so far. The agent edits the JSON, says "done!" with full confidence… and never actually looks at the report.

The new Power BI Desktop Bridge changes that!! Now the agent can:

👀 Check if the report is open and has unsaved changes
📸 Take a screenshot to verify its own work
🔄 Reload Power BI Desktop, no more save, close, reopen

In the new Guy in a Cube video Marthe install it, explain what the agent can (and can't) do, and test it with GitHub Copilot.

But verification ≠ quality. The agent can see the report. It can't tell you if the number is right or if it answers the stakeholder's question. 🛑

🎥 https://t.co/lilvEZtQT7
🎓 Want to go deeper? Come hang out with us in THE CUBE: https://t.co/Yn70zs7twH

[Guy In A Cube @GuyInACube]

🚨 NEW COURSE 🚨
Marthe wrote the spec. The agent built the whole Power BI report.

Our new course is live in THE CUBE: Spec-Driven Power BI Development with Agents. 🤖

The setup:
🏨 A hotel group dataset (AdventureWorks finally gets a day off)
❓ One question: which properties are underperforming on RevPAR, and is it price, occupancy or guest experience?
📝 A written spec and a hand-drawn sketch
🤖 Copilot CLI + the Fabric skills + the Power BI Modeling MCP

Then hands off. The agent builds the semantic model, the measures and the report as PBIP files, tracked in Git.

And here’s the best part: you don't only get the step by step explanations. You get the whole setup. Dataset, spec, sketch, the works. Clone it, run it on your own machine, and see if your spec holds up better than ours.

Join THE CUBE and check it out! 👇
https://t.co/Yn70zs7twH

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@JoshuaBarzon It’s a good one! I enjoyed his biography as well

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@CarlosErazoGTG @jason_howerton @TheLiveFreePod @howertonjosh @paulmcunningham Awesome! Congrats and keep it going!

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@JoshuaBarzon Very nice. I just picked up the Geneva Bible. What are the ones on the top shelf?

[EVE Frontier @EVE_Frontier]

What happens when a team of AI agents enters EVE Frontier, but one is secretly working against the others?

@AnthropicAI put cooperation, trust and betrayal to the test in the Frontier, with some fascinating results.

Read Anthropic’s research: https://t.co/HdBeua1JZm

Explore the @eveailab : https://t.co/muR5tZBODJ

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Jesus taught us to come to God as our Father.

To honor His name, seek His will, trust His provision, and ask for forgiveness.

The Lord’s Prayer reminds us how deeply we need Him in every part of life.

[Carlos Erazo @CarlosErazoGTG]

I WISH someone had explained this to me when I was younger Christian.

Every commandment in the Bible and everything it calls a *sin* is actually a *warning* from God not to hurt yourself.

In other words, as it has been said before… When God says DON’T, what He's really saying is: DON’T hurt yourself.

Let me give you several examples.

Sex before marriage - It is a scientific fact that sex creates a neurochemical bond with another person, not just physically but emotionally.

In other words, sex is not just the union of two bodies, but of two souls. So when God says DON’T, he’s saying: you don’t want to be bonded like that to somebody you barely know.

Lying - When you lie, you eventually destroy the trust other people have in you. And the problem with lying is that one lie often requires another to cover it up, until eventually, you've built an entire life around pretending to be someone you're not.

Envy - Envy is resenting God’s goodness in someone else’s life while ignoring God’s goodness in your life. Instead of living a life of gratitude and joy, you live one of bitterness and anger.

Pride - Pride makes a person care more about BEING right… than making a relationship RIGHT. And you become incapable of learning, apologizing, or growing.

Gossip - Gossip destroys relationships… and if someone is gossiping TO YOU about other people, chances are they're also gossiping ABOUT YOU to other people behind your back.

Unforgiveness - This one is tough because you’re already hurt with something. But when you refuse to forgive, unforgiveness makes YOU a prisoner of your past, and a slave to bitterness, resentment, and pain. God says “don’t.”

Greed - Greed makes you believe a lie that if you only had “more” then you’d be happy. Not true. You’ll be miserable.

Lust - We live a culture saturated with lust. It always destroys your ability to experience true intimacy with another person. This is why our culture is terrible at marriage, intimacy, and relationships.
Here’s the point.

Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV) says “Observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today … for your own good."

When God forbids something, it’s not because he hates you and he’s trying to rob something from you.

It’s because he loves you and he’s trying to protect you.

When He says DON’T, He's not trying to keep you from enjoying life.

He's teaching you how to truly live it.

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@WesleyLHuff Amen!

[Judson Althoff @judsonalthoff]

Please join us at Microsoft Ignite, our biggest customer and partner event of the year, from November 17-20 in San Francisco.

Last year, we shared a vision for Frontier Transformation as a wholesale reinvention of business by leading with human ambition and focusing on outcomes first. We explained that the two most important elements of any AI solution are intelligence and trust.

Since then, we have become more emboldened by these convictions, and have hardened a platform approach across Copilot, Microsoft IQ, and Agent 365. This year, we will unveil our latest innovations, with our customers and partners joining us on stage to share examples of how these platforms have composed to put AI to work in meaningful ways, enabling pragmatic paths to become Frontier.

We believe their stories will inspire you like they have inspired all of us at Microsoft and help you to imagine what is possible for your organization.

Register for Ignite today, and I cannot wait to see you there! https://t.co/E4DoMWTu3x

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@taetaesnugget Woot! Amazing!

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@JoshuaBarzon Scripture!

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@JoshuaBarzon #3 for me. Although #1 is tempting if I could use a translator 😁

[Waterboy @GMRench]

Reformation Day statement from the Whitehouse. Mind blown. Wow. https://t.co/UVJ67coiN8

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

509 years ago today (according to the traditional story), Luther challenged a Pope. The resultant cause and effect didn’t start a new church, it reformed the one true catholic church. As Calvin says in his letter to Cardinal Sadoleto:

"[N]ot only that our agreement with antiquity is far closer than yours, but that all we have attempted has been to renew that ancient form of the Church… Indeed, in attacking, breaking down, and destroying your kingdom, we are armed not only with the energy of the Divine Word, but with the aid of the holy Fathers also."

Orthodox, but not Eastern, catholic, but not Roman.

[Charles Lamanna @clamanna]

There isn’t one model that’s best at everything anymore.

Choosing the right one for each task (without sacrificing quality or paying more than you need to) is a hard engineering problem.

That’s what we’re working on with Auto in Copilot.

Today, more than 90% of Copilot queries use Auto to dynamically route work across models and optimize for quality, speed, and cost. In this video, I share how it works and chooses the right model for the job...

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@RockWallBibles Agreed. The column layout choice as well as the desktop size made me pause, but I love the quality of their bibles.

[Guy In A Cube @GuyInACube]

🎧 New Skills Friday is back!

This week's drop is all about getting up to speed on Direct Lake mode.

With 5 essential videos that walk through key concepts, migration strategies, advanced features, and best practices to help you build faster, more efficient Power BI solutions.

🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Zb3ehS6E8N

#microsoftfabric
#powerbi
#guyinacube

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We're redefining the SDLC for the agentic era.

Lots of GitHub updates this morning at Universe:

• GitHub Copilot Fusion delivers frontier-level quality, 40% faster and at up to 77% lower cost

• Our unified Copilot harness is now in Foundry, a managed service for building long-running agents that reason, use tools, and get work done

• Copilot Projects gives you an orchestration loop to build with multiple agents across repos

And we’re expanding capacity and strengthening GitHub’s architecture to make the home of agentic development more resilient.

[Guy In A Cube @GuyInACube]

Stop putting your Power BI images in SharePoint. 🛑

If you’re on Fabric, there’s a better way now: put the images in a lakehouse and point Power BI straight at OneLake. 🤯

Patrick walks us through:
→ Adding a static image from a OneLake URL
→ Making it dynamic with a measure, so the image changes when you pick something in a slicer ✨
→ Why you should build the URL with workspace and item GUIDs, not names
→ The step he forgot the first time: giving viewers read access to the image folder with OneLake security

No public URLs, no anonymous access. Just read access to one folder! 👏

Check out the video on YT! 👇
https://t.co/DHwKfNHDst