Testing OpenAI Dots: It Defaults to Cloudflare Stack Every Time

In repeated experiments, developers had OpenAI's Dots agent build an AI service status dashboard 8 times without specifying a stack; it consistently chose the Cloudflare suite, hand-writing HTTP requests and parsers instead of using Firecrawl.

2026-10-03 ~ 2026-10-03 · 3 related posts

• Running the same Dots dashboard prompt 8x: 12 providers, no stack specified — edwin · 2026-10-03
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• 8 Dots builds, same stack every time: OpenAI's agent defaults to Cloudflare — edwin · 2026-10-03