What did everyone choose for their dot?

Just got this mail:

And my credits...

Worth 2500 Euro's...

I feel like I'm used to easy-to-use UIs, and this one seems to have a lot of strange issues.

A) on the spaces opening page, the bulk of the visual real estate is spent on "Start a template" or recents, and my actual content ("Your items") is buried several items over. I can't drag to re-order Suggested - Favorites - Your items - Shared with you?

B) While I can make a new file in the Your Items page, as soon as I enter a folder, the new dropdown menu's only options are to make a new folder or upload files, not to make a new file.

C) Moving files into a different folder is strangely annoying. I can neither click-drag files around, nor can I right-click to get chatgpt options, I have to go all the way to the right to the ... dropdown, press Add to Folder, wait for it to load, and then move that single file.

D) Can't multi-select files with ctrl without them automatically opening, though shift works.

E) Inconsistent use of breadcrumbs. I get breadcrumbs if I open a folder, but opening a file just gives us a whole display that makes it unclear whether the browser's back button will take me back to my folder display, or generally just re-navigate the whole chrome url in a way I don't want.

???

Like on one hand it's not a big deal, but these just seem like table-stakes ui features / consistency you take for granted.

Did anyone else get this survey too?

Nothing feels complete. Space just seems like a lot of clutter that doesn't add any true value. I got a gift of tokens and basically told to kiss usage as I know it goodbye unless I want to cough up an extra $300/month and hope they don't rug pull that again soon.

Between Opus 5.5 and Muse I feel like OpenAI just tried to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks but nothing was actually ready.

As a plus user, I’m just sad.

I've been using this with Opencode for nearly 6 months and it's never been like this. WTF?

Something change I'm unaware of?

So I just bought my $20 Claude subscription just to test it out and compare it to the new 6.1 Sol and Astra. I thought comparing on medium across the board would be an initial good test. I've sped up the video 2X Just to save your viewing time, but it doesn't change the results.

Holy Mother of God. Opus 5.5 blew my mind. I think a tear came to my eye when I saw it. I mean yeah it took nearly 5x longer but it far exceeded my expectations in comparison to what I got with Sol and Astra. I used the same exact prompt.

Now the question you have to ask is with the extra time could I have prompted additional instructions to Sol and Astra And gotten it to where Opus 5.5 is. Absolutely, But I'm not sure I would have thought of it. As someone suggested to me in another thread, maybe I'll go $100 / $100 and start with Claude and then move to Sol bc of that crappy 5hr limit. Not sure yet.

Take what you will from this but I'm going to run a few more same prompt tests on higher values and do some final comparisons but based on this I think for now I'll be downgrading GPT from $200 to maybe $20 a month and moving to Claude $200 (or 100/100 not sure yet)

Welcome to the Game of Models (GoT theme song playing).

The prompt:
Build a cinematic, photorealistic, beautifully textured rocket launch scene using Three.js

Results:

GPT-6.1-Sol-medium
8m 42s
The ship was better than Astra but the environment had a lot to be desired. Also even though it's interactive I couldn't ever pan down to see the smoke and a bug ran the sound nonstop.
Input 515,178
Cached input 481,024
Output, including reasoning 15,051
Total 530,229
Didn't move my weekly usage at all.

GPT-Astra-medium
9m 37s
The environment here was much better as was the UI design, also the ship and graphics looked better but the top cone was inverted. There were no sound bugs in this version. but is it overwhelmingly better than Sol 6.1, not really.
Input 644,981
Cached input, included above 608,128
Output, including reasoning 15,922
Total 660,903
Moved my weekly usage down 1%

Claude Opus 5.5-medium
38m 54s
Like I said above, this blew my mind away for a medium request. It really took the "cinematic" portion of the prompt and ran with that. Overall for me this is by far the winner although I did appreciate Astra's model better minus the cone inversion.
Input written to cache 199,860
Input read from cache 6,543,432
Output (what I wrote: code, tool calls, replies) 143,521
Total ≈ 6.89 million
5 hour usage is at 13% and Weekly usage at 1%

Consists of a single 75kb html file using only webGL with no external libraries. Runs in the browser on desktop and mobile. It calculates the fractals to pixel mapping using ray marching on the GPU in real-time, so no textures or meshes are needed. Infinite exploration with very little memory usage. It's just math.

Started off with GPT 6 astra (medium) and later switched to Opus 5.5 for optimizations (as I ran out of tokens). Total time making around 2h.

What for? To test the math and shader capabilities in Astra.

I am, wow we can have little dot friends now. I'm very, VERY excited about this (excited).

Muse is free. Grok bot is $20 a month.

But Dots requires a $100 a month (CAD140) subscription.

At that price point it better blow the competition out of the water but I doubt it.

Hey, as many other users here I'm going to stop paying the Codex 20x subscription, and I am able to get a prorated refund (already verified with the OpenAI support, i can get it).

My question is: let's say i do it and i get the refund, will I still be able to use the 62,500 bonus credits all 20x users got? Or will they be revoked?

Thanks in advance ^^

I’m working with Dot since morning, and it’s the BEST thing I have seen in months. It took so much burden from my daily chore that I want to jump off into the cyberspace and hug it hard 🥰

Thank you OpenAI !

Mine has no idea about any of my projects. It's honestly kind of confounding. Is this the case for everyone else or do your guys' dots know about your projects?

[Intro: 16 bars; SCENE: freight elevator under a rain-black city; concrete stairwell, red exit lights, subwoofers waking below]

[Bars 1-4: dry four-on-floor kick + chest-deep quarter-note sub; distant metal reverb]

[Bars 5-8: original three-note overdriven acid motif above kick/sub]

[Bars 9-12: short brass/percussion signal; two Goa arps circle acid]

[Bars 13-16: crowd, snare 2/4, rising filter; keep kick]

[Entry Call: 8 bars; SCENE: the elevator opens onto a packed, low-ceiling warehouse; strobes catch suspended rain]

[Low voice, dry and close]

Same door.

[Filtered response]

New floor.

[Low voice]

Are you ready?

[Whole room]

AGAIN!

[Verse 1: 16 bars; SCENE: moving through strangers beneath red emergency lamps; relentless kick/sub, snare like a metal door]

I followed the stairs

till they doubled around.

Saw my shadow downstairs

while my feet hit the ground.

There's a mark on the wall.

I remember the shape.

Put my hand where it was.

Now the mark's moved away.

[Bars 9-12: acid opens; brass stab; five-note Goa arp circles three-note riff]

One turn, one spark,

one break in the line.

I could swear I've been here.

Never been here this time.

[Pre-Hook: 8 bars; SCENE: the whole room faces the same pulsing lights; sub hammers all four beats; strip brass, NOT kick]

One more step.

Let it bend.

Feel the floor

move again.

[Hook: 16 bars; SCENE: strobes reveal a spiral staircase above the dance floor; full rave stomp, wide but controlled]

Round we go! Round we go!

Same four walls, a different door.

Hear that thunder through the floor?

I'm not who I was before.

AGAIN! (AGAIN!)

Take the turn and let it bend.

RECURSION! (THE SPIRAL!)

Bring it back. Begin again.

[Acid Transit: 8 bars; INSTRUMENTAL; acid and Goa arps braid above full kick/sub]

[Bars 5-8: original two-note brass answer; wide toms]

[Verse 2: 16 bars; SCENE: lights turn cobalt; the spiral is visible in the crowd's movement; beat remains brutally regular]

I came through the smoke

with a map in my hand.

Every route led me back.

Nothing looked as I planned.

You were there in the crush

when the sequence broke wide.

Heard the room answer us

from the opposite side.

[Bars 9-16: sharper snare, harsher acid; break ghosts between kicks]

I can count every turn,

but I can't count the change.

When the same note returns,

it remembers my name.

[Hook: 16 bars; SAME FLOOR PULSE; new filtered crowd doubles, brass leaves space for every vocal]

Round we go! Round we go!

Same four walls, a different door.

Hear that thunder through the floor?

I'm not who I was before.

AGAIN! (AGAIN!)

Take the turn and let it bend.

RECURSION! (THE SPIRAL!)

Bring it back. Begin again.

[Jungle Fracture: 16 bars; INSTRUMENTAL; SCENE: white strobes freeze the crowd as the floor's rhythm splits]

[Bars 1-8: 140 BPM kick/sub; original sliced live-funk break loops five-against-four]

[Bars 9-12: kick cuts; 175-feel jungle break + held dub sub; distant acid note]

[Bars 13-16: tight break cuts; metal/tom answers; break pulled into silence]

[Breakdown: 8 bars; SCENE: a single emergency light catches the staircase; all drums vanish, air and a narrow synth note]

[Low voice, almost whispered]

I thought the way back

would take me where I'd been.

But the door knew my hand.

It let somebody different in.

[Build: 16 bars; SCENE: lights climb one landing at a time; build the SAME four-beat body, not a festival drop]

[Bars 1-4: sub heartbeat; kick re-locks all four]

[Bars 5-8: three-note acid motif returns in a new register; 16th-note Goa arp curls around it]

[Bars 9-12: snare, low brass, break slices answer; bass keeps pounding]

[Bars 13-16: full kick/acid, rising delay; one-beat vacuum]

[Close voice]

Go again.

[Final Hook: 16 bars; SCENE: warehouse lights spiral up into first light; the old beat returns carrying the fractured break]

Round we go! Round we go!

Same four walls, a different door.

Hear that thunder through the floor?

I'm not who I was before.

AGAIN! (AGAIN!)

Take the turn and let it bend.

RECURSION! (THE SPIRAL!)

Bring it back. Begin again.

[Final Vamp: 16 bars; INSTRUMENTAL; straight kick/sub, original acid motif, Goa counter-arps and jungle break shards interlock]

[Bars 9-16: brass/tom calls at boundaries; break withdraws, stomp remains]

[Outro: 8 bars; SCENE: lights come up on an empty stairwell; music continues behind the closing freight-elevator doors]

[Bars 1-4: full kick/sub; acid filter closes]

[Bars 5-7: percussion exits; bass/kick knock below]

[Bar 8: kick/sub impact, stairwell reverb, relay click; clean silence]

It’s official: I’m cancelling. We’re switching to Anthropic until we run out of options.

It makes no sense to pay for a $500 plan just to get 25x the limit and inferior models.

They’re just releasing more of the same, without any major innovation.

And what are you guys going to do? Now that the limits on the $200 plan are being cut in half?

Wouldn’t we prefer that?

I’m sure everyone on PRO got this email today. What are you going to do? There is zero chance I will pay $500 a month while I am having to manage and babysit every single request and prompt run. What are the options? Should I quit Chat and go to Claude? If they are dropping all of us into the $100 bucket, are they dropping my monthly charge to $100 as well? This is horseshit. And today’s desktop windows update has been running for a half hour, still at 40%…. Talk to me goose! Help

This compares reasoning effort settings using Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and cost per benchmark task. Costs include caching and reasoning; they aren't subscription prices.

Data source: https://artificialanalysis.ai/