I’ve had early access to OpenAI dots and I’m not here to join in on the glaze fest. Is this a Grok Bot or Hermes killer right now? NO. But…Spaces and allowing agents to thrive in apps feel like the right direction for these agents.
•• The Good
What worked well during my usage was how proactive the agent is right from the start with my existing plugins/connectors. The team is shipping insanely fast and have been quickly making changes to fine tune this experience.
•• Caveats
With a slow internet connection in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean I didn’t have a good enough connection for voice and had to heavily rely on cloud. There were other quirks related to this that might be noise but worth mentioning.
•• Bad at Writing
I tried connecting my dot to GitHub and it performed a research task to make a Spotify wrapped + story about my weeks at sea where I made over 294 PRs and shipped over 30 releases. The design felt very GPT-4 like with lots of text and the story was even worse.
•• Conclusion
I need more time with this and need to get this hooked up on my Mac at home with Codex so my dot can fly. I think there is potential to have a dot like this have access to powerful tools, web, and apps like Space to write pages and interact with humans.
I love the ease of use and speed of Grok Bot a lot. It is so fast to spin up many bots and have them quickly work together especially now as a team.
I’ll also be doing a deep dive of Grok Bot vs dots and continue to share my honest insights as a solo engineer building software after leaving FANG.
•• Disclosure & Philosophy
I hate it when I read early access posts and they only share the good but leave out the quirks. As a fellow engineer who’s shipped to billions of people, I respect the engineers who build software and spend many hours away from their friends and family to build their life’s work. The views and opinions are from me. I have not been paid or compensated by OpenAI, in fact, I’m still a paying customer and haven’t received any compensated plans from OpenAI as of the writing of this post.
As part of the Dev Early Access I plan to continue to gift my expertise, opinions, be it good or bad, with the intention that they also value their product enough to make improvements for the broader community.
