Last week was a big week for agents. I wrote about the agentweb on Tuesday. To compete with Anthropic’s managed agents service (which I’ve used a fair amount at this point and it is quite good) OpenAI released Workspace agents to a few customer segments, Google released enterprise agent platform, and Microsoft scrambled to release a preview of hosted agents and says Copilot is now in “agent mode”. There will now be an explosion in the number of agents.

I don’t like to speak in absolutes. But all business software must be agent-ready as soon as possible.