ChatGPT dots @petergyang Hands-on review

Compared ChatGPT dots with other agents: calls the dot on walks to ask what to do today, then has it hand work to other threads.

A daily plan from a phone call. The author sees dots as ChatGPT’s chief-of-staff agent and says it answers big questions about growing a business better than other agents.

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Every morning, look at my email, calendar and messages and tell me the three things I should take care of today, with one line on why each matters. Then start a separate task for each one I approve and keep me posted on its progress.

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Here's my take on OpenAI dots vs. the other personal agents: 1. These are really two separate races. dots and Grok Bot are going after work tasks. Muse is going after personal tasks. So I don't think dots competes directly with Muse. 2. Dots' biggest advantage is that it lives inside ChatGPT. My onboarding was seamless because everything was already connected. And with my ChatGPT memory and Astra behind it, it answers big questions like "What should I do to grow my business?" better than other agents. 3. I also think of dots as ChatGPT's official chief of staff agent. My favorite way to use it is to call it on a walk, ask "What should I take care of today?", then have it hand work off to my other ChatGPT threads. 4. In contrast, chatting with my dot in the app is a worse experience. Since it's juggling several tasks at once, it's hard to tell which one it's responding to. I prefer Grok Bot (where each bot works on one thing at a time) or talking to my dot in Slack (which has more obvious conversation threading). 5. I'm a broken record about this, but cramming Codex, Work, dots, Spaces, Pages, and more all into ChatGPT is overwhelming. My hunch is everyone at OpenAI is agent-pilled, so it's hard to take a step back and think about how casual users will learn all this stuff. This is the biggest gap imo - OpenAI needs to think a lot harder about onboarding for normal users. My mom will have no idea how to use any of this. 📌 I talk more about all this in my full dots review and tutorial here: https://youtu.be/z5X1eMU6isI

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