OpenAI Dots hands-on: closer to an employee than an assistant
Peter Yang gave Dots real work from his one-person business for a few days: it found a five-figure sponsorship issue, analyzed 1,800+ YouTube comments, helped launch his app and built a paid product, shown in an 18-minute walkthrough.
OpenAI Dots is starting to look less like an assistant and more like an actual employee Peter Yang gave it real work from his one-person business for a few days: it found a five-figure sponsorship issue, analyzed 1,800+ YouTube comments, helped launch his app and even built a paid product 18 minutes of real Dots workflows: 00:42 → how Dots actually works inside ChatGPT 03:18 → researching X + Slack and creating content 07:38 → analyzing 1,800 YouTube comments across hundreds of videos 08:29 → finding app bugs, creating App Store assets and auditing sponsors 11:26 → turning an idea into a paid product + landing page 13:29 → where Dots still breaks and how it compares to Grok Bot probably one of the better real-world demos of OpenAI Dots so far
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