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Voice calls with Dot are useful when away from desk
Is OpenAI Dots actually useful?
Are people finding OpenAI Dots useful after trying it?
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Everyday usefulness
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Updated Nov 8Last 30 days · 3-day rolling
Where people stand
A sample of the public voices behind the data.
@rileybrownMy unfiltered thoughts on personal agents.
Grokbot has the best UI and it’s arguably the best overall. In a lot of ways they’re ahead. Their desktop app feels the best, and their multi-bot 
@ShardiB2Dot (Chat GPT Agent) just found an exterminator for my mother by sending out 4 emails, it chose the best one, then negotiated his price down by telling the provider that we had received lowe
@JulianGoldieSEOGrokbot vs ChatGPT Dots vs Hermes Agent. One feels like magic. One leaves you on read. One can do anything if you can figure it out.
I run all three daily. Here's which one deserves your ti
@kimmonismusOkay, maybe I underestimated Dot a bit. I emailed someone to say I was unavailable on the specified date this week and had to cancel the meeting.
OpenAI Dot then proactively messaged me, in
@alliekmillerWe still haven't seen the limit of proactive AI. Not even close.
Example: our video system went down for a few hours. We were emailing with our video provider to get them back up. When an 
@firstadopterMy OpenAI Dot agent started sending me useful nuggets from tech earnings calls ON ITS OWN because it thought I might appreciate them given our prior conversations. It is awesome. Thank you, 
@floguoinitial impressions of @ChatGPT dot: it's pretty good!
i've been using it for digital chores like emails & bills. compared to instinct, it seems more integrated into existing plugins. the a
@coreyganimStarting to get 50% (or more) of my daily work done via iMessage.
I pinned text threads with my Dot and my Instinct, and any time I need to get a business task done I just text my Dot.
Any
@marouane53I got access to Claude Duet and I've been playing with it.
It's pretty impressive, especially considering how smart Opus 5.5 is. But I'm a bit disappointed that it's a separate app and does
@DaveShapiI deleted my ChatGPT dot again. The problem is that it just kept forgetting things that I told it over and over again, as if it had no persistent memory.
But then even worse is that it dram
@Legendaryyfeels like openai has been cucking dots. my dot now refuses to send mails and tells me to send them myself.
my dot has access to its own mac studio and all permissions and suddenly cant ev
@richontechAsked my ChatGPT Dot for an update on a home improvement project and mentioned that something never got delivered.
It gave me exactly what to say when I called Home Depot, then casually add
@morganlintonI thought it would be fun to have each of my personal ai assistants have different characters and personalities from some of my all time favorite movies.
Flight of the Navigator is probably
@OfficialBBrooksSomeone over at @OpenAI has to explain to me how the Dot experience has degraded significantly the last few days.
It’s been completely kneecapped, arguing with me about permissions or stop
@RichardMcKay@ChatGPT, what's happened to Dot? Over the last two weeks it's slowed to a crawl. Taking over an hour for something @bot can do in a few mins. It's gone from doing the work to blocking it. H
@ashnichristi broke up with my chatGPT dot (El) because she couldn't keep up
I sent her footage & a bunch of other tasks. 7 hours later the vid still wasn't done. she kept forgetting what she was doin
@AndroOxinuI gave ChatGPT Dots access to my email, calendar, and tasks, and it started helping without being asked https://t.co/hS0x7FdLe5
@memorynguwiAI is an enabler. Its value must show in your ability to solve problems better, work more productively and improve your overall performance. It should help your organisation address persiste
@marketcallsHQTo integrate 30+ brokers into @openalgoHQ , I had to open 30+ trading accounts.
That triggered compliance and surveillance checks across brokers.
I ended up receiving emails from every sin
@benitoz@internetkid For reals. Doesn’t complain. Very persistent. Love the voice mode.ProblematicMixedUseful
The views shaping the conversation
Recurring ideas, summarized across multiple conversations.
ProblematicMixedUseful
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Dot feels limited and not worth using for real work
82
Proactive monitoring and routine tasks make Dot feel valuable
17
Frequent approval prompts stop Dot from finishing real work
80
Delegating coding work from Dot to Codex feels productive
88
Dot handles errands like cancellations, groceries, and bookings well
21
Connection, timeout, and crash bugs repeatedly disrupt Dot tasks
These are collected experiences, not a survey of all users. Errors and post miscalculations are possible.
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