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August 11, 2026
Meagan Longoria's five-stage maturity model for agentic Power BI development gives Mike and Tommy a framework to argue with. They mostly agree — except on the crawl stage, where Mike thinks starting with an MCP server beats starting with a chatbot.
July 28, 2026
A listener watches junior staff prompt their way to DAX they don't understand, and asks how to train them. Mike and Tommy name the three fundamentals they'd require before handing over agentic tooling — and argue the senior's real job is now building the agent that teaches everyone else.
June 16, 2026
If agents write the DAX and the Python, the job shifts from producing code to vetting it — and that makes you a professional reviewer. Mike and Tommy work through what still has to be in your head to review well, and the uncomfortable question of how juniors become seniors when the MCP server is doing the junior's job.
January 31, 2025
In this episode, Mike and Tommy unpack a mailbag question: why are there still so few job listings that explicitly ask for Microsoft Fabric? They break down what’s really happening in the market today and how both job seekers and hiring managers should think about Fabric skills as adoption ramps up.