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Dots ran my projects for a week and kept losing track of its own work

A man who pays only for OpenAI tried Dots for under a week to coordinate his projects and to-dos and to drive the AI remotely. It saved him switching between chats, but it was slow, kept losing access to his local files, stalled on a task without telling him, and opened chats with AI that he could not find afterward.

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How it works

  1. He hands Dots his projects and to-dos to coordinate
  2. Dots runs tasks and talks with AI over several rounds
  3. Finished results come back slowly while Dots reads and summarizes them again
  4. Dots loses access to his local files and stalls on one task with no notice
  5. Chats Dots opened do not show in his sidebar on the web, his phone, or local the AI

Why it’s worth knowing

The chats Dots opened with AI did not show up anywhere he could look, not on the web, not on his phone, not in local the AI. He could not find work his own agent was doing.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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