jessfraz Slams AI Assistant dots: Approval Frictions Kill Promised Automation
jessfraz · x · 2026-10-09
Jess Frazzini criticized the AI assistant dots for failing its core promise: connecting scheduled jobs, filtering signal from noise, and linking related emails and chats. The blocker, she says, is an approval-gated permission design that lets the assistant "do nothing" without sign-off, calling it the dumbest design she has dealt with.
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