I first posted about this a month or so ago. This is the future of publicly no code development. Simply make a statement and AI build a template for you.

By Simon Bisson – Microsoft has started to bring some of these ideas into its Power Platform, using a mix of its own technology and OpenAI’s Codex machine learning. It’s been using Codex in Power Apps for a while now and is now bringing it to Power Automate, offering AI assistance in flow design.

Codex is an interesting tool, a version of OpenAI’s large language models that’s been trained on code rather than on prose. One version, using a model built from GitHub’s public repositories, powers its Copilot service. The result is a powerful way of helping you build both code and tests, using it as a way of giving you smart hints into using common libraries and design patterns. That approach should work well in the Power Platform, where the underlying problem space is more tightly constrained than Copilot’s more open programming model.

The intent for Codex in Power Automate is to use natural language as a seed for application development. Instead of jumping straight into building a Power Automate flow from scratch, you’ll be able to write a brief description of what you want it to do. Codex will then generate a set of possible flows that can be tested before either editing or putting them straight into production. Read On: