ChatGPT Dots Just Dropped. (Brutally Honest Review)

@brendanautomation

added Sep 30, 2026

First honest look at OpenAI Dots, the new virtual cloud computer agent. Full hands-on walkthrough: setting up recurring schedules, using computer use to browse Airbnb, connecting plugins and MCP servers, testing creative tasks like painting in Photopea. Live demo: Airbnb listing monitor (06:45). Live demo: painting in Photopea (17:07).

Brendan Jowett (@brendanautomation, AI automation agency founder) got hands-on with Dots on launch week and demoed real tasks his Dot executed live: he set up a recurring schedule and had the Dot browse Airbnb via computer use as an Airbnb listing monitor, plus a live painting demo in Photopea. Honest/negative-leaning verdict vs Grokbot (call button broken, early bugs), but shows genuine first-hand task execution on camera.

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My Dot knew my flight and mapped the SFO LEGO store detour

My Dot knew my flight and mapped the SFO LEGO store detour

Asking my dot the important question

Video on Reddit

My Dot Kermit made this animated short

More Dots Made by my Dot Kermit.

My Dot negotiated an annual bill through the vendor's website chat

My Dot negotiated an annual bill through the vendor's website chat

Used OpenAI's new dot to negotiate an annual bill. It required some hand holding, many confirmations, and wasn't 100% autonomous, but it did work and ultimately saved me some time. It went through the chat on the vendors website. One thing for sure, is that this is going to annoy the shit out of customer service agents. It's super verbose and sends way too much info in every chat and asks for a ton of confirmations and info. I mean, it works, but I would hate to be on the receiving end of this

Dot controlled its own cloud computer to mint ecash test tokens

Dot controlled its own cloud computer to mint ecash test tokens

my dot is sending me ecash

Dot proactively flagged the oncall channel during the DevDay demo

@charlielamb @OpenAI I watched it live while reading through the oncall channel my dot had just flagged to me. Prod went down 5 mins before the demo. Memorable for sure.

Dot pulled an all-nighter and built the VulcanBench Decision Lab

Dot pulled an all-nighter and built the VulcanBench Decision Lab

Okay, this is actually insane, last night, while I slept, my Dot was working on a surprise for me. I woke up to see that, on its own, with no hints or ideas from me, it came up with the idea for VulcanBench Decision Lab, and then built it. As you can see, I literally just wrote, "okay I'm up" and it responded like an employee that just pulled an all-nighter trying to impress me. Totally wild. Dots might be something very different than anything I've ever used. Here's what I woke up to: