Codex 28 · Theme · #121

Apologies without completing the task

3people describe this

3 on X

3 problems · first reported 8 Oct 2026

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Problem
I've never seen a product as frustrating as Dots. What should ideally be kicking every personal assistants ass, and instead, my dot feels braindead. Constantly apologizing, and then still not doing the work. @thsottiaux

@adityavsingh on X ↗ · 11 Oct 2026
Problem
I'm now convinced this is what they do, it literally did half the work i explicitly asked, pretended to check and said "ok good" while the fake suggestion knew exactly what was wrong and not done

@LeoMozoloa on X ↗ · 10 Oct 2026
Problem
Dot was so cool at first. Now it’s the bane of my existence. Literally can’t finish anything and keeps blocking things for no reason. Just apologizes and keeps doing it. Just running through usage without actually accomplishing anything. Doing approval donuts in the parking lot

@4Gaige on X ↗ · 8 Oct 2026

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11 Oct 2026, 09:16 UTC

“Looping approvals without progress” was merged into this theme: JEV judged them the same problem.

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X thread: 2769 replies to the promise post collected (4 Oct 2026 – 26 Oct 2026): 2555 placed in a theme and 214 set aside as off-topic or unsafe. X replies are found by search and each one is checked against its public post on X. Last read: 26 Oct 2026, 23:46 UTC. Not every reply is read.

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