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OpenAI's 'Dot' feature suffers widespread outage, impacting sub-agent functionality

Users are reporting that OpenAI's "Dot" feature, which allows for the operation of multiple sub-agents, has become completely non-functional. The feature is reportedly stuck in a "read over and over" state and has even disappeared from the interface for some users. This outage is causing significant disruption for power users who relied on Dot for extensive tasks, with one user noting it previously handled 4 billion tokens over two days. AI

IMPACT Disrupts users relying on multi-agent capabilities for complex tasks.

RANK_REASON User-reported outage of a specific product feature.

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OpenAI's 'Dot' feature suffers widespread outage, impacting sub-agent functionality

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User-reported outage of a specific product feature.
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  1. r/OpenAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/call-me-GiGi ·

    Anybody else’s Dot completely broken

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Not responding to any messages at all I just get read over and over, I’m shocked there’s not some kind of an outage on the open ai website.</p> <p>And before you tell me dots are pointless, I discovered they can run 7 subagents without touching y…