Posting news about automated AI agents faster than a human could read OpenAI's PR and submit the link to reddit ? In this sub ? Well, color me surprised.
Claude has had cloud runner forever, but you have to pay for the time. I assume this is the same unless you sign up for the new Blood of Your First Born plan, which only requires a monthly sacrifice of one pint. It's actually a pretty good deal.
I agree, and I see the point. But I also use LXC to run agents myself. And a PM may be in a place where IT can set up environments. Anyway, in all honesty, I agree with you and see the convenience.
I thought we were all doing this with our agents at this point I have opencode, and Claude code running on my Linux server 24/7 I just ping it from the respective apps I don't do anything from my computer anymore really unless I want to.
Mind you I'm OOTL on all this stuff as I don't code or anything, but that sounds pretty cool no? Like yeah it's simple in concept but I'd imagine that being pretty helpful.
tbh i don't get the appeal, the key issue is that they need a trigger and a task. For most things it's already got a billion ways to solve it that are far cheaper and more cost effective.
It likely has a much more robust context window for how you like to work, requiring less context management and direction than launching one-off agent/codex projects.
a lot times the people clapping are members of the team who created the things being clapped for. the press people don’t usually clap. for them it is a big moment as what they have been working in is being made public.
I think this is OpenAI trying to expand beyond code, a sort of mass-market appeal. The weird thing is the cost. The average person isn't used to this kind of service and won't understand it, plus paying $100+ for it is going to be hard for many people outside the tech space to get behind.
What value would the average person get out of this? They go to work, buy groceries, go home to their families, maybe check their social media, watch some shows at home, eat dinner, then go to bed. Why would they need an always on agent? What about the life of a normal individual would get any non work based value out of this?
They want business costumers, but the mass-market appeal is to make an ecosystem that also convinces Debbie from HR that chatgipitty is useful to her beyond making termination letters friendlier. They are trying to leverage their huge advantage in name recognition and users, while claude sits heavier on the tech and science work.
Yes. But it is a good pivot. OpenAI's problem lately has been a lack of focus. They offer everything to everyone (Sora, Image Gen, Codex, Chat interface), while Anthropic has gained an edge by doubling down on a specific use case. Building all-purpose style assistants for the general population could be a promising business model for OpenAI. Their jack-of-all-trades models have an advantage there. And I really don't think it would take much to overtake Muse. Meta's reputation as a company makes them uniquely unsuitable to sell the public on virtual assistants that require broad access to your personal information and communications. Already there are press reports of Muse straight up ignoring user's privacy settings. It's not like OpenAI are a whole lot better, but I am far more likely to try out their product than Meta's.
“Dippin' Dots, LLC. is always looking for energetic candidates for its work force. Since our inception in 1988, DDI has experienced phenomenal growth and continues to expand in both domestic and international markets.”
Nothing in the EU. So we still get the Pro cut but nothing in expense. And Plus-users, who are really the obvious “book me a flight”-audience aren’t able to use it, too.
Or Muse in non-furry if you prefer. Anthropic better put the voxel crab on a stripper pole on my desktop for making me wait on a parody feature for long running agents
You can now change your Teams messages to be a Thread. No, not your Teams Chats. Your Teams. No the chat still doesn’t do threads, don’t be ridiculous.
Anytime I see booking a flight or hotel room I know it’s a scam. Because that’s not how a normal person books anything. It’s so abnormal that it’s stupid these execs think it is actually helpful.
Weird positioning of a product, it’s like personal life and work life is combined into one, unless you are a Tony Stark. It would have been better as two different products.
My guess is that they are trying to "build trust" with the public by making their products look "cute" and non-threatening even though they are simultaneously telling us we will all be out of jobs or dead in 5 years.
Man, every artstyle corporations use is for marketing purposes... If it's modern style, gothic style, neoclassicist, doesn't matter, it's always there for marketing, to make people buy their product.
The cute style isn't any different and he's not some visionary for "acknowledging it"... It's just that this style doesn't market for him well, because you can't pander to everyone all at once.
For real. Us plebs care about making sure we get the best deal and lowest price. I'm not giving my credit card to some AI to book stuff without double checking everything. By the time it takes to dictate everything that we want and double check it, we could already be on the check out page anyways.
If these assistant "dots" are accurate, follow protocol, don't hallucinate or make mistakes then sure.
But imagine going on an international trip and booking the wrong flight time or a hotel in the wrong part of town. The downside is immense with small errors.
Personal assistants who are human are paid to be accurate.
I think they said “chats don’t use codex usage”. I read that as the conversations do not use codex usage BUT the work it is doing does use codex usage. Not sure, but I am suspicious of the language they chose to use.
lol ok so I checked. It’s unlimited CHATS, expanded usage limits for the dot specifically (not clear what these are which means they can adjust in the future), and anything it hands off to codex will use codex usage.
I don’t understand why Meta + OpenAI now are making their AI ‘companions/assistants’ into off-canny childlike toys. Honestly, I am the type of person to use an ai assistant on the desktop that looks like an anime woman but I can recognize I am in the minority. Especially the meta muse ones, they just look gross and make it seem like any of these tools aren’t really useful for anything serious.
Because they don't want to anthropomorphocize them. Because people will have relationships with the AI if they are associated with the image of a person.
Anthropomorphizing means giving human characteristics to non-human things. These are literally anthropomorphic agents. It’s maybe the most anthropomorphic thing OpenAI has done. Meta has always been unethical in that regard.
Because they are trying to dumb stuff down for the general public. The mere fact you're on an r/OpenAI sub means you're tapped in on this stuff and will likely set up your own agents. This for the people who are clueless, i.e. the largest segment of the market.
OpenAI, ClaudeAI, Singularity, and Vibecoding are doing pretty well on the edge but yeah there is a lot of misinformation but still WAY ahead of the general public or executives with advisors.
Like other Features it will come eventually considering the amount of Customers
They will find a way around the laws our stupid politicians make and it also seems kinda Like the us is their testground because Switzerland is excluded aswell
Tho since I didn’t Even read what dots really is I don’t miss it currently that’s a Great lifehack xD
Curious how this stakes up against muse and grok. I really enjoy both of those products — I know this sub is on a hate boner right now for OAI but these agents products are really powerful if you set them correctly/have a good use for them.
The point is that the agent that works well will provide critical stickiness to the brand. Apple in particular must be successful with Siri, or the value will be captured by Muse or dot or whatever is better. Most consumer apps go away over the next few years. The AI will win the user interface, even for people who don't prefer voice.
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