OpenAI's Dots Promise Proactivity and Control at the Same Time
OpenAI has introduced dots, describing them as proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. The company pairs that with a promise about control: that dots help you stay in control while work moves forward. Proactivity and control are the two properties every agent product currently advertises at once, and they are also the two that pull against each other.
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Proactivity is the whole point. An assistant that waits to be asked is a search box with better manners.
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Proactive and in control are two ends of one rope. Every move the assistant makes on its own is a move you didn't make.
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Then the feature that matters isn't the initiative, it's the interrupt button.