Dots first impressions: a proactive personal-assistant agent with a transparent scratchpad
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-30
Developer kr0der shared encouraging first impressions of Dots, an AI personal-assistant agent he tested only briefly but already finds promising.
- Scratchpad is the killer feature: Dots auto-generates a scratchpad where everything is visible at a high level — a design clearly inspired by the suggested-tasks feature in Codex.
- Surprisingly proactive: task suggestions are pulled in via many MCPs, and the agent's proactivity came as a surprise.
- Solves a real pain point: most people (author included) struggle to think of what tasks to delegate to a personal assistant; Dots' proactive suggestions tackle that cold-start problem.
He acknowledges rough edges and bugs but plans to keep using it as it evolves.
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