A 35 minute call with Dots to make one task, and it still got it wrong

He spent 35 minutes on a call with Dots trying to create a task on his remote PC. Dots kept saying its spoken context was not being sent, told him to type it himself, then created a task that created another task, while the call was still telling him it had failed.

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How it works

Call Dots and describe the task
Get repeated errors about spoken context not being sent
Type the request himself as told
A task gets created that creates the task he asked for
The call still reports failure

Why it’s worth knowing

The tool built to take instructions by voice could not receive its own spoken instructions.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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