Dot finished a rental report for mum, then emailed wife and co-ordered replacement printer filament with zero input

added Oct 4, 2026

This morning I was just super disappointed with OpenAI. I haven't moved a long way from that, but my experience with my dot has been something that's worth talking about. I think I understand a bit more about what dots are for. When I first started using my dot, I used it as an orchestrator, like I would have previously on coding tasks. It struggled with anything complex. However, as the day went on, I started to change my use case of it, and I stopped using it as an orchestrator and more like a personal assistant. That was when I had a few aha moments. The first moment was when it emailed my mum and introduced itself... that gave me a bit of a shock. I told her I'd work on a report for rental housing she was looking for it. I wanted to give her daily report and she was struggling to find places. I'd done about half the job but not completed it, so I asked my dot to finish it off and send her the report. While doing that, it introduced itself to her and asked what else she needed. She sent me a really nice text message thanking me... Next, it identified a few things in my emails. Bambu Labs offered it to us free filament due to an issue we had with our A1 printer (power board exploded). The dot found this email which I'd forgotten about and I told it to ask my wife about it because I wasn't sure what the best choice was, and it emailed her. She had a few back-and-forth emails with it (while I was next to her on the couch laughing), and now together they've ordered the filament together, all with no input from me.

First-hand r/codex account (u/withmagi): using Dot as a personal assistant — it introduced itself by email to his mum, finished and sent a rental-housing report he'd half-done, surfaced a forgotten Bambu Labs email offering free replacement filament (printer power-board failure), emailed his wife about it, and through a back-and-forth email exchange with her the two of them ordered the filament together — all with no input from him. Text post, no media.