Prompting BI is where business intelligence and prompt engineering meet. It's a space for dialogue on navigating the ever-changing world of BI through AI. I'm Tommy Puglia, Microsoft MVP (2019-2025) and Power BI consultant, writing for the Power BI and Fabric professionals figuring out how to use generative AI well.
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Fabric Is Best as a Backend
October 5, 2026
Fabric as a Backend passes Steve Jobs' iPad test on the wiring: workspace identity, Git, and 700+ REST APIs Microsoft is building for agents.
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Same Prompt, Two Reports: Give Desktop Bridge a Spec Before It Builds
October 2, 2026
Give Desktop Bridge the same prompt twice and you get two different reports. The three report skills and a real kickoff page are how you get the same one.
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Agentic Distributed Wisdom: Why Your Team's AI Skills Can't Live in One Head
September 30, 2026
Your team's AI skills are agentic IP. Agentic distributed wisdom puts that judgment in one library every person and every agent on the team reads.
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The Context Harness and the Execution Harness: Two Harnesses, One Loop
September 25, 2026
The context harness holds what your agent knows. The execution harness does the work. Why 80% of my agentic time goes into the first one.
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A Data Agent Should Be a Sub-Agent
September 23, 2026
A Fabric data agent works best as a sub-agent with one job that Copilot, Foundry, or Copilot Studio calls. Here's how I write those instructions.
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A skill.md Is Not Wisdom. So Make the Agent Grill You.
September 21, 2026
Your skill file carries instructions, never the judgment that says this is six hours not two. Matt Pocock's grill-me is how I get the judgment back in.
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Central BI Is a Tiger Team Now
September 18, 2026
In Fabric, central BI shouldn't own workspaces and ship gold models forever. It should float to the priority like a tiger team. Here's the operating model.
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Build the Thing That Creates the Thing
September 16, 2026
Stop prompting for the same notebook edit. Build the executor: an agent, its skills, and the context it reads, in a harness that reaches Fabric and Power BI.
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