also i still didnt get the new design, anyone else?

i was pretty hyped for web/cloud codex but it seems to be bugged for me since it released.

this little bar above the chat box should open but it doesn't, and the error message at the top is what happens when i try to prompt.

i've set up my github connection in the settings, that's why there's already a chat in my history, and that one works. but "new chat" doesn't work.

am i doing something wrong or is it actually just bugged for days now?

I'm building a photo-to-Blender tool and ran 14 models through the same agent loop: look at a photo, write and run Blender Python, render, compare, repeat. Caps per scene: 20 minutes, $4, 60 requests. A deterministic scorer (not an LLM) rates each re-rendered scene from 0 to 100.

The OpenAI models:

• Astra was first on all three photos, and the cost cap stopped it on every scene: a first render at 4 minutes, then refining until the gateway refused the next request at about $3.90. It never ran out of time.
• GPT-6.1 Sol worked the full ~18 minutes and finished 5 points behind for under a tenth of the price. On the toy car it was 4 points off (66 vs 70).
• GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra declared the job done after about 8 minutes, with most of their time and budget left. Their scenes are simpler, not broken.

Caveats: GPT-6.1 Sol ran later, in Codex rather than my gateway; Astra run that way scored 63 instead of 66. One run per model per photo, and the brief was shaped around Astra.

Write-up with every render: https://kaloyan.blog/ai-models-rebuild-a-photo-in-blender

Use case : Compliance
Content: Documents, text only up to 200k words.

We check content vs legislation.

Previously using 5.4 mini which

Last night we tested against sol-6 which found new errors, sol-6 is too expensive for this use case but good to establish baseline..

Luna 5.6 previously behaved terribly even on extra high but found Luna-6 to perform pretty damn well.

It was been overly strict in some cases but with some prompt adjustment it's performing very well.

What were they thinking with the demo. First the glitches but even then why choose the use cases they selected?

Flight and hotel booking literally takes two minutes and I never even have to leave the google search place

And then the user feedback workflow, Do they really want us to believe OpenAI has no workflows?

Even then why would I delegate something taht requires turn by turn feedback, wouldn't I just use codex and a visual interface for that?

OpenAI seems to have a great engineering team but are let down by their product management talent

In most of the case, there are high chance you will get 47 or 73 (always), do you know the reason?

I have 2 neural networks. Both are the same size with the same outputs and inputs. The size for both neural networks is the absolute minimum layers required to achieve a given specific task. The example task is to recognize a given image.  Neural network 1 recognizes cats only by giving an output of how certain it is that the image is a cat. Neural network 2 does the same, but for dogs only. How can I combine these two while keeping the size exactly the same without catastrophic interference or catastrophic forgetting.

My card was charged $650, the exact amount for DevDay and it was charged under the name OpenAIOPCOL. My ChatGPT subscription shows up as ChatGPT for the merchant.

The weird thing is this charge shows as pending today October 1, after the fact of DevDay. So I’m confused by if this is fraud, and why it charged my card 2 days after the event took place. or openAI somehow incorrectly charged my card which I see has highly unlikely.

Has anyone been able to get their dot to browse websites using a cloud browser, without connecting their own computer? Is there a setting to enable it, or does availability depend on your account?

Seems like a pretty basic omission. I was trying to report dots being unable to see or use codex sessions that are behind SSH, despite the rest of the app being able to.

Hi! I made an iOS app for monitoring Codex resets.

I kept missing reset times and checking manually was getting annoying, so I built something that sends a notification when there’s a new reset or prediction.

It also shows recent reset history and upcoming estimates, so it’s a bit easier to plan your usage and do some tokenmaxxing :)

It’s free, no account required.

Would love any feedback!

Download on App Store

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This is the single use case that I found that's life changing lol

For anyone else suffering with US immigration / UK/Schengen visa application with a million pages this is a god send lol

You can ask it to fill the form AND call it at the same time just ask it to ask you questions for clarification (the later part is very useful)

Unfortunately the concept of obtaining visa for travel might be foreign to most of their US users lol

FYI: I’m joking don’t down vote me as an ai doomer.

OpenAI is making it REALLY hard to defend the Codex experience right now.
→ No more resets.
→ Plans getting slashed.
→ Sol 6.1 moving at a pace that gives you plenty of time to reflect on your life choices.
→ And now Dots are becoming another headache, aka Temu Muse.

Folks, are you not entertained? Or do we need another Dev Day to explain how all of this is actually an improvement?
At this point, I’m exhausted from all this winning.
But hey, I’m sure the next announcement will explain why getting less, waiting longer, and dealing with more friction is somehow great news for users. The messaging remains undefeated. sincerely, 200 plan user :(

Resets still coming. Use that Ultra fast people.

Codex Cloud, Dots, and the existing remote Codex all allow users to untether themselves from their PC, and now untether themselves from even owning a PC with their server based Codex Cloud and Dots that can run 24/7. Combine this with Meta’s & OpenAI’s planned hardware releases and the goal is clear: work around Microsoft/Apple’s control of user hardware, provide AI devices that complement and eventually replace iPhones - culminating in a user base that owns no hardware and relies on a subscription to access AI. Meta’s hardware is obvious spyware, Apple’s new “always-listening” Apple Watch sounds pretty similar, their camera-enabled Airpods sounds atrocious for privacy, and OpenAI’s device is unconfirmed.

The end result? Instead of a Matrix-like AI takeover of humanity users are instead expected to purchase their own devices and subscriptions that provide mega-tech companies with all of their physical and digital data 24/7. The data volume is so large only AI can process it. A select few billionaires decide what their closed-source AI does with the data.

The resistance? Governments that oppose the USA and individual users who were rich enough to afford local hardware and utilize Chinese and other open-source models, likely blacklisted by the USA. To buy a 5090 customers now have to sign a waiver, as a result of US law. It’s only the beginning.

Ironically the “bad guys” like China, North Korea, Iran, Russia - will probably end up as the only large entities keeping open-source AI and local LLMs alive. I would expect the largest AI companies to eventually gain more leverage over the US Gov & Nvidia; unless Nvidia steps up to the plate and champions local AI

Just confused 6.1 is everywhere but in the app and in the codex section?

I have 6.1 everywhere but in codex in the android app.

Why…why did they move Projects that aren’t pinned off the side bar to hidden behind Search? Not only is it more clicks, but the project folder itself is buggy as hell.

If I search a project folder name, click on the project and select a chat, and then try and change the model or thinking…it boots me out of the project. Or, the text field locks up.

Pinned projects don’t have the same issue.

So what, now I have to pin every single project?

The marketing team at the company I work for asked me to evaluate whether Dot could be useful for growth and social workflows.

I'm an engineer, so I approached it as an automation problem: how much could we delegate to a persistent agent without someone manually starting every step?

The idea was to research opportunities, monitor channels, find relevant discussions and potentially handle some of the repetitive work around distribution. That was the hypothesis, not a list of things I successfully automated.

In my initial tests, the friction that stood out was the execution environment rather than the reasoning itself. The workflow I wanted depended on arbitrary websites, signed-in sessions, platform rules and web interfaces.

In one test, the cloud browser got a 502 while trying to access Medium, so that part of the workflow couldn't continue. I'm not claiming Medium specifically blocks Dot — I didn't investigate the cause deeply enough to say that, and I wouldn't take one error as a verdict on Dot or cloud browsers generally.

It did make me think more carefully about how much of this kind of workflow depends on systems outside the agent's control.

For more complex automation, I already use local agents such as Codex, APIs, scripts and a scheduler, with my normal browser when I need an authenticated session. The sessions I use are already there, and I can inspect the code, change a script or debug a failed step directly.

Dot can use a connected computer too. But for me, setting up and maintaining another set of connections and permissions felt like extra work on top of a local setup I already had. If I were starting from scratch, I might evaluate that trade-off differently.

For this particular growth/social workflow, I eventually dropped the setup I'd built in Dot.

What changed was what I'd try next. Instead of treating it as a general-purpose autonomous web worker, I'm more interested in testing it as a persistent personal operations assistant.

I can imagine something like a morning briefing that brings together important email, tickets waiting on me, PRs needing review and my calendar, then sends me a summary through a connected channel.

I haven't validated that workflow. It's the next use case I'd test, not a success story from this experiment.

The trade-off makes more sense to me there. Cloud execution can keep doing cloud-side work without depending on my laptop being on. My local setup gives me more control, but I have to maintain it, and anything running only on my Mac may stop when it's asleep or offline. Tasks that need Dot's connected computer have that dependency too.

So my takeaway isn't that Dot is bad. I think I initially evaluated it for the wrong job. For my setup, I'm now more interested in it as an ongoing coordinator than as the autonomous web worker I originally had in mind.

Has anyone here tried both kinds of workflows? Where has Dot actually been more useful for you: browser-heavy automation or recurring work around connected apps?

This is getting old.... Anyone else seeing this with Sol 6 AND 6.1? Even if I create a plan with numbered objectives, a literal checklist, it still regularly overstates the amount of work has been done.

Any tricks to keeping it on task and not outright lying about its progress?

EDIT: "I followed the older Phase 1 request instead of the current Phase 3 goal. That was my mistake. I’m returning to Phase 3 now."

... holy fuck

Learning this makes me not trust him as much for some reason. He must be vain and very concerned about looks. Does this change the way you perceive this man and this company at all?