Non-Coder Pushes OpenAI's Dot to 10M Tokens a Day—Then Hits Login and Blocking Walls
Lloydian64 · reddit · 2026-10-10
A non-programmer details running OpenAI's Dot on daily business tasks (10M tokens/day, with a 2B token referral buffer): reading a partner's SharePoint spreadsheet to schedule shifts, updating a foreman's workbook, and generating daily reports from time-clock data across three external systems.
Pain points: SharePoint regularly triggered vague access blocks (Dot kept asking to download copies instead); the scheduling app randomly returned 'internal access restriction' errors, only fixable by rebooting the Dot from web/desktop (no option on iPad/iPhone); and despite stored vault credentials, every reboot plus every 24 hours required manual re-authorization for the job tracking software.
His verdict: babysitting an agent defeats the purpose. He's now testing Muse on the same tasks, which is 'looking great,' and would prefer Dot to improve fast—while noting he trusts Meta least of the big labs.
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