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Had their Dot fill out online forms — flags two disappointments honestly

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Let it filled some online forms, but found two major disappointments so far - it can't make calls. Like whole point of using this is I am autistic and don't want to talk to people - it doesn't even have built in feedback tool so you can't complain to it lol

u/kerbinagent let their Dot fill in online forms — concrete task completed first-hand. Honest caveats from the same user (who is autistic and hoped the Dot could handle calls): the Dot can't make phone calls, and has no built-in feedback tool to complain to. Heavily discussed (128 upvotes, 101 comments), Oct 2026, r/OpenAI. Text-only.

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Dot 'Keet' finds the cheapest parking and grades a student's assignment

🚨🚨 OpenAI acaba de presentar los Dots en el DevDay y yo llevo usándolos desde el viernes: formé parte de las pruebas de la Dev Early Access Community. Te cuento cómo ha sido. Un Dot es un agente que está siempre encendido, con su propio ordenador en la nube. Lo conectas a tu correo, tu calendario y otras herramientas, y no espera a que le escribas: revisa por su cuenta qué puedes necesitar y te propone soluciones que muchas veces solo tienes que aceptar. La conversación se parece más a WhatsApp que a un chat con ChatGPT. Le pones nombre y avatar (el mío se llama Keet), y si le respondes con un 👍 entiende que aceptas y sigue. Lo que más me ha sorprendido estos días: 1️⃣ Este viernes tengo una formación y justo después un evento, con media hora entre medias. Lo vio por un email del evento, me avisó y me preguntó cómo pensaba ir. Le dije que en coche, me buscó el parking cercano más barato y me abrió la reserva con los datos rellenos. El pago lo hice yo. 2️⃣ Se puso a revisar la práctica que había entregado un alumno de AI Expert. Para ver el vídeo le pedí que instalara Whisper en su máquina, lo transcribió, revisó el repo con el conector de GitHub y me dejó una primera revisión. Ya no parto de cero. 3️⃣ Otro alumno había preguntado algo y Nino ya le había contestado. Lo vio y me propuso ajustar mi borrador para añadir solo lo que faltaba. Además se mete en Slack como un miembro más del equipo, y puedes llamarle por voz como si fuera una llamada de teléfono. Para esas tareas pequeñas que se acaban enquistando porque nunca encuentras el momento, me está resultando útil. ¿Lo vais a probar?

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Dot 'Boo' triages Slack and email, catches a flight/meeting conflict

BREAKING: @OpenAI just announced Dots—always-on agents in ChatGPT I've been testing it for the last few days @every, here's a quick vibe check: What you should know: - They'll look familiar if you've used OpenClaw, Muse, Instinct, or Grok Bots. - Your Dot sits in the redesigned ChatGPT sidebar right below the “New chat” button - It has its own cloud computer that lets it work while your laptop is closed. You can text it any time or call it on the phone. Vibe check—the good When it’s working, it changes the way I use ChatGPT: I interact with Boo (my Dot’s name), and Boo orchestrates ChatGPT threads, reads my email, uses Slack, and more. It automatically filters incoming Slack requests and emails so I can quickly triage items without opening my inbox. When I was rescheduling a flight, Boo warned me that my new flight time would conflict with a meeting request from Slack that I hadn’t read. That’s the promise: an ongoing agent that filters what needs my attention and acts proactively on my behalf, in one long-running chat thread. Vibe check—the bad But the version I tested over the last few days was buggy and lacked some features I would expect, like iMessage support. I had frequent issues with permissions and dropped messages, and my Dot was unable to connect to its own in-app browser. The verdict During testing, I found myself reaching for my Dot over starting new Codex threads, so it has definitely become a habit despite the frustration. And during the tesitng period the team was rapidly fixing issues—so I'd expect most of this to be smoothed out over the coming days and weeks. Unless you love new things with rough edges, I’d recommend waiting a week or two to try it. OpenAI will have solved a lot of these paper cuts by then. If you’re already deep into Grok Bots, Muse, or Instinct, it’s probably not an immediate switch unless you’re also a big ChatGPT or Codex user. Read the live feed on @every: https://every.to/live/openai-devday-2026

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I've tried Dots and it doesn't suck...

But it's not great through... So far I've been playing with it since the rollout. It's good for nonlinear asynchronous multitasking, where you bomb it with your ideas, hop into side quests, and totally forget what you were doing a minute ago. The good part - it works well where there is a straightforward path. Like browse a site, grab some info, propose some solutions. And it gets stuck when there is no connection, there's firewall or captcha, or it has no idea what is going on there and its solutions just suck so I end by having to do it myself anyway... Yep, and it has its own computer, so I can ask it to do some stuff, like make a short music video and come back with result. Or browse the internet and do some stuff. The asynchronous part is good: you can continue bombing it with other tasks while it works. And it could not tell me which model it is. It feels different from Astra in regular chats... And it happily launches multiple helper agents like ultra chats. I specifically asked my dot to question its agents, and after quite a while, it reported that they didn't know either. It seems to have a pretty good sense of what's going on across some of my other chats. For instance, I asked it to sort out my ChatGPT Library, and it took a while and didn't finish everything. But it routinely sorted it out by project and along the way, showed me a visual overview of what it could not identify so I could give it hints. It can make a personal avatar for itself and set it up without further input from me. So, overall: It is nice for daily multitasking. And it could potentially become something big, like the movie Her, but we're not there yet.