OpenAI's always-on dots agents take overnight on-call pages for engineers
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OpenAI's dots are always-on agents that handle on-call incidents, watch channels and open investigation threads. One engineer used his dot from the ChatGPT app to deal with a 3 a.m. page without getting out of bed.
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