I tested OpenAI’s Dot and Anthropic’s Duet for weeks – and all I got was one helpful notification

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have recently launched proactive AI personal agents that act as assistants. OpenAI calls its agent Dot and Anthropic calls its Duet. Dot and Duet scan cloud-based services and let you know about important items without waiting for you to ask. These function somewhat differently from traditional chatbots and traditional agent interfaces. I tested both Dot and Duet over the course of three weeks and found that only one message from either agent was helpful. Duet caught a Chase chargeback that my support filters missed two days earlier. But the AIs mostly missed things I care about and surfaced irrelevant or out-of-date items.