GPT-6 Astra and Dots fix a euro-order bug overnight while the user sleeps
The author gave Dots a task to watch support email and Slack and fix any bug that appears three times; overnight it read 412 old tickets, found a currency rounding bug affecting only euro orders over €99, opened a PR and sent a single decision message.
SAM ALTMAN LAUNCHED DOTS 4 DAYS AGO. I GAVE MINE ONE JOB, AND IT FOUND THE BUG THAT WAS SILENTLY KILLING EVERY EURO ORDER OVER €99 the job, word for word: "watch our support inbox and slack. if the same bug shows up three times, find it, fix it in codex, and ask me before anything ships" then i went to bed 23:10 - it reads 412 old tickets to learn what normal looks like, and doesn't say a single word while it does 02:47 - the same checkout error shows up in 3 tickets and a slack thread from our eu team. it groups them as one bug 03:20 - it opens a codex cloud task, reproduces the error and finds a currency rounding bug that only hits euro carts over €99 04:05 - fix written, tests passing, pull request open. it doesn't merge. it sends me one line: "found it, here's the diff, 3 customers affected, want me to reply to them?" 07:30 - i wake up to that message and nothing else. instead of 40 notifications i get exactly one decision to make 09:12 - i say yes. it answers all 3 customers, links the fix and closes the tickets that bug would have sat in our queue until monday the cost of the whole night was a chatgpt pro seat i was already paying for. gpt-6 astra did the thinking, the dot did the waiting the thing nobody tells you about dots: the impressive part isn't that it's smart, it's that it's patient. it watched an empty inbox for three hours and didn't spend a single message on me until it had something worth a decision what's the one job you'd hand yours first? full setup and the exact permissions i gave it are in the article below ↓
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