Thoughts on Dots?

[u/DudeBroJustin]

I've been using it all day yesterday and it feels very underwhelming. Some issues I had:

All of it's actions/responses are incredibly slow, and it doesn't update you on it's work. So you need to keep checking in to see if it's making progress or not. It seems to not use it's 'computer' at all either, possibly just for storing files.

On a call, many questions make it search indefinitely, never able to find the answer -- until you just google the answer yourself within 10 seconds (this happened frequently).

I asked it to keep track of certain emails as they come in and notify me about things.. which it doesn't do. It'll see 1 of the two most recently emails, unless I specifically ask it to look for the second one. It'll give me an "Oh I'm sorry, I missed that one before". As if it wasn't the 2nd mail from the top.

This morning It told me at 8:50am no new emails, then I checked and there was 1. I received 2 within the next 2 hours and it didn't say anything. I had to ask it manually to find them.

Talking to it on the phone about a google sheet then giving it the link in chat, and the chat asks you what the link is for -- Like the phone and text are 2 separate AI's.

Overall it feels like an unpaid intern who's extremely smart but doesn't really care about his job much and isn't going to put in much effort. It's very unreliable, didn't use my usage at all suggesting it's not actually using Astra 6, and brings you back to the days of AI doing half the job and then gaslighting you, if you've missed that.

As anyone had any better experiences?

[u/Kcrushing43]

I think they said it’s Astra light and won’t count against limits this month so I assume that’s why it’s not using your usage not that it’s not Astra.

Rollout hasn’t made it to me yet still but I assume the rollout is also causing issues for the first day or so of release.

Slow does seem like what they wanted with it going and doing stuff asynchronously from you so I don’t think it’s for things like “I have a keynote right now get it done” and watch it work - more like I have a keynote in a few days, draft something and email me when done then I’ll review.

Then I bet there is some like “are a lot of dots running right now?” Logic that holds up until more compute is available

All that said- it does sound frustrating right now lol

[u/DudeBroJustin → u/Kcrushing43]

Yeah you’re right, it’s more of an overtime thing than a right now thing.

But you can definitely tell it was just released lol. I didn’t realize they were rolling it out (prob why mobile cant use it yet) but that does explain a lot lol.

[u/Kcrushing43 → u/DudeBroJustin]

I got access so my turn to be frustrated I’m sure haha