I pioneered machine teaching at Microsoft. Building AI agents is like building a basketball team, not drafting a player

Salesforce’s latest agent testing/builder tool and Jeff Bezos’s new AI venture focused on practical industrial applications of AI show that enterprises are inching towards autonomous systems.

It’s meaningful progress because robust guardrails, testing and evaluation are the foundation of agentic AI.

But the next step that’s largely missing right now is practice, giving teams of agents repeated, structured experience.