A code-level walkthrough of rebuilding the 'status' bot from Part 2 as an agent — and why the real shift is from authored branching logic to tool-driven planning.
The Table Everyone Skims Past
Most people read this comparison as a framework preference. It is not. It is a change in control model.
Part 1 introduced the high-level contrast. Before moving on, it is worth putting real code on both sides of it, because the table alone hides where the actual engineering effort shifts.
Dimension
Bot Framework SDK
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