{"id":35978,"date":"2025-05-23T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=35978"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:47:07","slug":"%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af-cpo%ef%bc%9aagent-%e6%9c%ac%e8%b4%a8%e8%bf%98%e6%98%af%e4%b8%80%e7%a7%8d%e5%b7%a5%e5%85%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/35978.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CPO: Agent is still a tool at heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35979\" title=\"4b409bc6j00swp6lj001ed000u000gym\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4b409bc6j00swp6lj001ed000u000gym.jpg\" alt=\"4b409bc6j00swp6lj001ed000u000gym\" width=\"1080\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Microsoft]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Microsoft<\/a>Aparna Chennapragada, Chief Product Officer, was interviewed on Lenny's Podcast, where she mentioned that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/agent\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Agent]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Agent<\/a> It's still essentially a tool, but in the future Agents will have higher goal-achievement capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>For Aparna, she believes that she prefers to think of Agent in terms of \"product reality\".<strong>So she feels that an Agent is still essentially a tool and a \"stand-alone software process that can perform tasks on its own\".<\/strong>Because the Agent does not need human guidance, it analyzes how to help the user solve problems on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Aparna said that we are now in an era of \"human-machine co-driving\"-humans in the main car, and AI in the passenger seat to assist. But Aparna predicts that as AI's reasoning ability is updated, humans will be able to more confidently hand over tasks to Agents, who will then be able to take care of things on their own at a moment's notice.<\/p>\n<p>\"What makes a good Agent product?\" Aparna has the answer<strong>:: \"Autonomy of execution,\" \"Complexity of problem solving,\" \"Natural interaction.\"<\/strong>According to Aparna, these three points are at least the design principles that go into building a good Agent product.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Aparna Chennapragada, Chief Product Officer of Microsoft, was interviewed by Lenny's Podcast, in which she mentioned that Agent is still essentially a tool, but in the future, Agent will be able to achieve higher goals. For Aparna, she believes that she prefers to think of Agent from a \"product reality\" perspective, so she feels that Agent is still essentially a tool, and a \"standalone software process capable of executing tasks on its own\" because Agent does not need human guidance, and it will analyze how to help users solve problems on its own. Aparna said that we are now in a \"human-machine co-driving\" situation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1405,6741,280],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-35978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-agent","tag-cpo","tag-280"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35978"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=35978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}