The main source of investor angst has been a move by Anthropic and OpenAI to repurpose their code-generating tools as general-purpose agents, capable of carrying out a wide range of actions for non-technical workers. Need to clean up your email inbox and organise your expenses receipts, or handle more specialised jobs like producing marketing copy or analysing a legal contract? You may soon be able to ask an all-purpose agent to do all this and more, without having to open all the different apps currently used to accomplish these tasks.