Reviewer: OpenAI Dots feels rushed, agent bolted onto a messy ChatGPT app
mark_k · x · 2026-10-03
markk reviews OpenAI's new Dots agent as "feeling rushed," likely pressured by the launches of Grok Bot and Meta Muse.
- Plentiful bugs; the agent feels bolted onto the ChatGPT app rather than natively integrated.
- Missed opportunity to unify Chat, Work, and Codex into one coherent product—instead it adds another confusing layer.
- Still optimistic OpenAI can fix it, but that requires fixing the underlying mess, not layering an agent on top.
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