My fantasy agents

Originally published on LinkedIn on June 19, 2026

Two years ago, as a contractor for Microsoft, I accessed a tool, which enabled me to create an AI agent. I used an in-depth user guide to train the model. The subsequent agent was primitive, simply making it easier and faster to surface content from the user guide.

Fast forward.

I recently checked out Microsoft Copilot Studio, eager to create an agent. Then I learned I couldn’t do it with my family subscription of Microsoft 365.

Drats.

Just as well because my fantasy agents are frivolous, except to me. First, I’d create an agent, which kept track of my fourteen soaker hoses, zigzagged in my vegetable, flower, and cottage gardens. Presently, I connect one of three garden hoses to a soaker hose then let it run for a few hours, before connecting it to another soaker hose.

I have a timer, which I inevitably forget to use, so my tomatoes might get six hours of water, peas barely an hour, and the lettuce, spinach, and kale overlooked until they droop.

Because my soaker hose agent will be smart, it will know exactly how much water each bed needs—augmented by sensors—and alert me to run outside and move the hose. I’ll also have sensors near my raspberries, strawberries, peas, and beans which squirt a stream of water when Tzuki, my terrier steals produce.

Or maybe the sensors would simply mimic my voice, “You’re not a goat! Stop eating the peas!”

My flow agent would help me better utilize my riding lawn mower. It could step me through the brake/choke/accelerator sequence and remind me to push in the mowing thingy bopper when going in reverse and diagnose why the mower stops in the middle of the lawn because I forgot to add gas.

I’d also create an agent to keep track of my household responsibilities with the intelligence to prioritize what’s most important and provide sage recommendations.

“Hello Julie. Let me summarize your morning. Tzuki has been outside ten times in the past three hours, and my sensor shows he’s already done #1 and #2. You’ve opened the refrigerator four times and examined the contents. You got sidetracked while getting the mail and spent half an hour weeding before surveying your vegetables garden and watering the starts in the greenhouse. Since money doesn’t grow on trees, I recommend you get cracking on securing a job.”

Maybe it’s a good thing Microsoft Copilot Studio isn’t available to people like me!

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Note: All incomplete sentences, grammatical mishaps, and bizarre thought patterns were made by a human. The image was created by AI, which is ridiculously addictive and fun.