Dan Shipper@danshipper8h ago

OpenAI’s Dots launched last week and they've taken over @every. A few things that stand out: They protect your attention. Over the weekend, my Dot posted my model-testing results to Slack and brought back replies. I could keep working without opening Slack and disappearing down a rabbit hole. My weekend stayed pretty clear and calm. They’re useful for the little things you miss. People at Every are using them to pull important information out of school emails, catch missed Slack messages, and flag account-access requests. Voice makes them useful away from your laptop. Our head of video was talking his Dot through video edits while running around getting our launch out. The ecosystem matters. Dots feel roughly at feature parity with Muse, Instinct, and Grok bots. But having an agent connected to the ecosystem you already use for work and life is a real advantage. If you use ChatGPT, I recommend trying one. Permissions are still frustrating. I have to approve the same basic thing multiple times, and sometimes even after I approve it, my Dot says it can’t do it. That needs to get fixed. I’m less convinced we’ll stay loyal to the characters. Mine is named Boo, and I’m attached to him. But I felt that way about my OpenClaw agent, too. When something better comes along, I switch. In a year, I expect to be using a persistent agent. Boo will probably be dead. RIP, Boo. I get into all of this at the start of this week’s podcast, and then sit down with @bigwilliestyle to talk about where we go from here. In a lot of ways, Dots and GrokBots remind me of a wave we went through with OpenClaw eight months ago. We talk about personal vs. company agents, why we built our own company agent, and whether companies will end up with a whole shadow org chart of agents. Full episode below.