This week, OpenAI announced Dots. What they called, “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” And Dharmesh Shah had this to say about it:
I couldn’t agree more. Whether learning, working, collaborating, or parenting, my default mode is connecting dots. Just last week in a meeting, I referenced a report template that tied directly back to an all-hands release meeting. It took a moment for the person I was meeting with to bridge that gap, but once they did, the path forward was instantly clear. Sometimes I spot those intersections faster than others; other times, teammates help me connect them.
One of my personal goals is communicating those synthesis moments more effectively. That’s why tools like Dots excite me. Not just to automate tasks, but to help scale how we synthesize and share context.
I’m going to keep learning and leveraging AI to map those patterns faster and in ways my own brain can’t match alone. My one prediction? “Dots” won’t achieve the household-name stickiness of ChatGPT, but the utility underneath it is the real deal.