DOTS

Points of view

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• Dots is a capable productivity agent33%

  Supporters say Dots is a promising personal or work assistant that can handle ongoing tasks, research, planning, coding, and business workflows. They value its persistent operation, proactive messages, cloud computer, and ability to complete much of the work with limited user input.

  • “OpenAI Dots change the AI-agent idea from “ask → answer” to “goal → ongoing work.” Dots are persistent agents with their own cloud computer, connected apps and the ability to work toward your goals 24/7. 🧵”

    @AIForPeople · Oct 6

  • “OpenAI dots now became my entry point to basically all my tasks starting this weekend. Personal assistant is promising.”

    @coderjoehu · Oct 5

  • “This is crazy for a personal assistant to send msz proactively 🤯 Been using @bot for a month but it never proactively sent me a msz. Instant love for @OpenAI Dots.”

    @ranaharshraj7 · Oct 1

• Dots needs better reliability and usability19%

  Critics say Dots is too buggy, limited, slow, or unreliable for its intended role, citing browser restrictions, mobile problems, task failures, connection issues, and an unsuccessful live demonstration. Some also say particular features are unnecessary.

  • “OpenAI Dots’ browser is so frustrating. Amazon gets blocked, file downloads don’t work, and I keep hitting walls. How is an assistant supposed to get anything done with a browser this useless? Please fix it, OpenAI. The experience is seriously disappointing @OpenAI @dots”

    @trinknx · Oct 1

  • “Man, OpenAI dots are so buggy. I expected more. Especially bad on mobile.”

    @erikrogne · Oct 4

  • “@OpenAI dots calling feature is gimmick”

    @jaid_sagar · Oct 3

• Dots is too expensive for many users17%

  These critics say Dots’s paid plans, especially the entry price and highest tier, limit adoption or make the product poor value for people who can build comparable agents themselves. They favor pricing based on concrete outcomes or self-hosted alternatives.

  • “What is OpenAI dots? It is a ready built AI agent in the cloud that you have to pay: 1- Compute 2- Tokens So if you can build one, keep it simple and make one yourself.”

    @BenTradesData · Oct 1

  • “copilotkit just open-sourced opendots for free it’s a self-host template for always-on ai coworkers like openai dots but you clone it and run it yourself with any openai-compatible model what it does: > each dot can get its own computer (browser, files, terminal) > spaces and”

    @kawaidgaf · Oct 5

  • “PICTURE A HERMIT CRAB TRYING ON A $100 SHELL AND HITTING GLASS ON ALL FOUR SIDES The shell is OpenAI's Pro plan at $100 a month, first dot included. That is $1,200 a year, about $3.33 a day for one agent. Hermit crabs borrow their shells and test the fit first. In our clip”

    @6AW0RON0k · Oct 7

• Users need more control and safeguards11%

  These views call for clear approval rules, permissions, checkpoints, and responsibility boundaries before an always-on agent acts or sends work onward. The emphasis is on defining what Dots may do independently and protecting users from unintended actions.

  • “OpenAI Dots starts at $100 a month Everyone is posting the mascots. I did the math. > sell a result, not "AI" > price the deliverable, not the hours > write the contract before you connect anything > put one checkpoint before anything leaves your machine Run it for 7 days. If”

    @konig0000 · Oct 4

  • “The Always-On AI Agent Decision Guide: let AI catch the work you forgot. What these agents do without being asked, and what it costs to hand one a job this week. Three things you can do now: You can hand an AI a responsibility instead of a task. OpenAI's dots and xAI's Grok Bot”

    @VeleticaHQ · Oct 4

  • “The Always-On AI Agent Decision Guide: Let AI catch the work you forgot. What these agents do without being asked, and what it costs to hand one a job this week. Three things you can do now: 1. You can hand an AI a responsibility instead of a task. OpenAI's Dots and xAI's Grok”

    @VeleticaHQ · Oct 4

• Competing agents are better choices6%

  These users prefer competing agents, particularly Muse or Grok, based on their own comparisons. They present Dots as behind alternatives rather than as the leading product.

  • “Muse is better than OpenAI dots. It’s not even funny.”

    @jonschxyz · Oct 3

  • “Based on testing Grok @bot, Muse, and OpenAI dots, Grok seems to be the best. I would say: 1. Grok 2. OpenAI Dots 3. Muse Everything is very dynamic and can change at any time”

    @wickedguro · Oct 7

Other views: 14%