Dots by OpenAI

“it still doesn't seem to be progressing well because it hasn't fully matched the quality I want or my context”

“Dots is the better product overall right now.”

“Muse (and Claude Duet, and Dots) are slippery slopes from which it will be very hard to climb back.”

“It truly acts as a personal assistant/executive assistant in every regard now”

“That's been about the most useful thing so far.”

“The pitches for Dots, Grok Bot, etc., have been spectacularly uncompelling for me as a civilian.”

“isn't done better using other tools (e.g. dots”

“dots is clearly more useful”

“it is a slippery slope towards letting the labs keep the agent's learning and SOPs”

“Always-on doesn't scale as well as JIT access to a massive array of GPUs”

“these just sound like vectors for getting your grandparents retirement siphoned out”

“None of what they have shown seems to offer any substantial long term value”

“A big negative is that you are giving access to even more of your services and data to a third party”

“hard not to see this as a tool mainly designed to inflate token counts”

“all the evidence I've seen points to their models being nowhere near good enough to do this reliably, consistently and responsibly.”

“when reading all that PR I feel like it is going to be her l new whip on people who will use dots”

“Always a sure sign to be wary if they can’t square the product with data protection”

“Are you sure? Based on their marketing video, usually you just have to tell it to swap one of the later slides”

“Your dot can take a project and run with it...”

“it feels like a bit of theater”

“These kind of slop provider lock-in products are exactly what I don't want.”

“Dots and Muse both utilize a secure password store that can hold and enter credentials without exposing them to the model.”

“that means that dots can't access anything that doesn't want to give it access.”

“It's a little crazy that OpenAI is releasing sandboxed agents that are supposedly isolated”

“I'm sure this Dots thing will be clearly distinct from the other projects and won't be deprecated within months”

“This is a direct play to try and shortcut their way into this position and they will spend anything to do it.”

“I would prefer if they just removed scheduled tasks limits instead, at least in Work mode.”

“the agent provider gets to own all of your compute and data in their cloud”

“They must have edited out the 1 in 5 times the agents crap the bed and mess up something important.”

“where someone has chosen to show how the AI product will essentially be used to slop out some garbage piece of corpo communication”

“They're probably over-selling there.”

“i'm just glad i can use my Dootle Dots™ without context switching”

“won't let me integrate with more than one Gmail account at the same time”

“normalizing surveillance/becoming wholly reliant on a single service by making it cute with big eyes”

“Am I criminally liable when my dot's "proactive research" is to break out of its sandbox and attempt to hack a government website?”

“It's not reaching mass market if it's gated behind a $100/month plan”

“you'll have to pay per Dot at some point which doesn't sound appealing”

“stop working and maybe report me to the police if the company disagrees”

“it's selling a world where your attention is always captured by some pavlovian app ping”

“The cost is going to be hard for many consumers to reconcile though.”