ChatGPT Dot Review: Your Chief of Staff is Still an Intern

🧱 I’m Mete, a product designer, builder, and inventor with 10+ years of experience at companies like Netflix and Peloton. I write to help connect the macro and the micro forces behind AI - from ways of thinking to ways of working. If you’re looking to understand and use AI beyond the surface-level, you’re in the right place. Subscribe nowI’ve been test-driving Dots daily since its release last week. As someone who’s been using Hermes and test-driving lots of other agentic consumer products, I had a clear need and a place in my workflow for something like Dot. I loved experimenting with Hermes, but ultimately most of my work still happened inside Codex. Over time, my life got integrated deeper and deeper into Codex to the point where it was more useful, convenient, and present for me than Hermes, which required constant debugging and optimization.1Yet, Hermes gave me a taste of what it’s like to have one thread as an agentic abstraction for your computer. It was so clearly the right…