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Huge Codex fan but the fact that Astra was marketed as equivalent to Fable in retrospect was really insane
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got a ton of likes on this from bots. Makes me wonder if Muse or Instinct are using bot farms
It’s incredible that despite the resources of openAI and Facebook I still find myself turning to Instinct over dot and Muse at this point multiple times a day
It’s so much better at purchasing and it has taste
@noahrshinn
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the only coherent thing I can make of all these moves between the top labs is that everyone is comp maxing.
Openai hired a ton of impressive people including from Ant.
Ant hired a ton of people from openai
Muse/Meta hires impressive people from both.
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It’s incredible that despite the resources of openAI and Facebook I still find myself turning to Instinct over dot and Muse at this point multiple times a day
It’s so much better at purchasing and it has taste
@noahrshinn
Genuinely very sad to read. Modern day David and Bathsheba scenario in terms of the stakes and the loss
Here's what Nvidia's Jensen Huang sent to staff, admitting to affair:
"To my colleagues at NVIDIA,
I owe my family and all of you an apology.
I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.
Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, I let them down and damaged the life we built together. I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.
To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.
To my colleagues at NVIDIA, including those I have worked alongside for decades, and to our board, partners, and shareholders around the world: you deserve better from me. Leading NVIDIA is the privilege of my life. My responsibility is to serve you and be worthy of your trust. I have fallen short of that responsibility. I am fully committed to NVIDIA and will work to earn back your confidence.
Regarding the national security concerns raised in news reports, NVIDIA’s Board of Directors has initiated an independent investigation. I support the investigation and will cooperate fully. I love our country and our company. I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America’s national security. I am proud and grateful to be an American.
My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy.
Jensen"
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Its surprising people are taking this quote at face value.
With a number this low DoorDash and Uber (with the similar quote) are strategically distancing themselves or downplaying this.
Even just the Hark gimmick with the free pizza on doordash had to have generated more orders than this.
for no reason other than the joy of it here's my @ChatGPT dot review after quite a bit of usage.
Good:
Memory/Context switching: excellent, I haven’t run into a problem yet and I’ve done a massive range of personal and work tasks. Coding, team planning, DMV, funeral planning, personal goals, random trivia etc.
Computer use: amazing and it connects pretty well to your personal mac so it can do stuff on walmart/amazon/messages. Approvals are the only issue here - more restricted than Codex even when you try to give it a ton of permission.
Decent:
UX: good except for it being embedded in chatgpt. If it was a separate app it would be top 1-3. Still not as fast and snappy as Muse.
Model: ok. Every model feels dumber than Fable and in most cases opus 5.5 and Astra is no exception - routinely makes dumb mistakes or doesn't fully investigate or intuit what you're after.
Connectors: solid except for onboarding onto them. Feels enterprise compared to Muse/Instinct.
Bad:
Saving passwords/credit cards: bad. If you’re not using a connector or using your logged in device with computer use it's basically not possible or you have to argue/approve 100 times.
Approvals: terrible, embarrassing. Sometimes you can do something, sometimes you can’t, no recourse if you can’t, no transparency. A million times worse than using Codex, doesn't feel like your tool like Codex does.
Wishlist:
1. Fix the bad stuff: approvals and passwords/credit cards
2. Ongoing To Do list like Muse: it’s hard to check in or remember all that you’ve talked about - it can handle context insanely well, it’s actually me who has a hard time managing it.
3. Access to your texts like grokbot: - the more I can peel away from my personal laptop needing to be open the better
4. Dedicated mobile app - multiple taps in the chatgpt app sucks
cc @thsottiaux @ajambrosino @hollllyli @TheRohanVarma
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Dot/@ChatGPT approvals are so incredibly bad. Sometimes it lets you complete things, sometimes it doesn't, doesn't matter what you tell it.
@thsottiaux @ajambrosino this is an area Dot loses compared with Muse/GrokBot/Instinct
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ngl more and more of my codex threads are getting subsumed by dot, despite being a hater at first
It's getting pretty good
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prediction: Replit will sell to microsoft or google for ~$10B within the next year OR will later struggle and get acquired by bending spoons in 3 years.
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Hey @thsottiaux, Codex Chrome connects but browser actions fail: "Unable to load browser feature gates."
Cloudflare blocks OpenAI’s settings endpoint. Repro on macOS in desktop + CLI 0.162.1, including after switching to a hotspot. Report: github.com/openai/codex/issu…
Best part of codex is computer/browser use IMO, any attention would be appreciated 🙏
![[macOS] Chrome browser commands fail loading feature gates: Cloudflare blocks ab.chatgpt.com /...](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2118424521925623808/IoM_tryK?format=jpg&name=800x419)
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My dots feedback so far:
cc @hollllyli
Positives:
- integrates with my local codex (with issues - see below).
- proactive - not as proactive as I'd like but it's getting there
- call mode
- onboarding
Rough spots:
1. It struggles to connect to my mac while on my mac to say nothing of when not on my mac
2. Gmail connector seems to not support multiple accounts? I connected 4 and it looks like they just overrode each other. This to me is a must for a personal assistant - Muse, Instinct, and my homegrown skills handle this totally fine.
3. Phone is worse than voice mode which is a bummer because voice mode is incredible:
- no transcripts to follow up on.
- as far as I can tell it stops tasks if you hang up?
- you have to wait for it to ring - this feels patronizing
4. sub-agents or tasks that dot kicks off, even on my computer, have restricted permissions so normal commands I'm used to making fail.
5. You can't use local codex skills even when working on mac.
6. Pages are cool but Dot doesn't seem totally familiar. I asked for various docs to be created, referencing a page, and got one docx file and one pdf.
7. in pages you can't easily do what IMO is the most no-brainer thing - highlight text and ask dot to do something about it. You are supposed to be able to do this in a comment but I get errors on that every time I try it.
Overall feedback is if it could feel more like voicemode on local Codex it would kill Muse, Instinct etc.
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