Comment by marcd35
5 days ago
I’d disagree with this being targeted toward normies. Reread the release. The first demographic in their copy is toward developers:
“ Turn feedback into tested fixes You’re a developer working on an app. Your dot watches customer feedback for recurring requests, scopes smaller improvements and bugfixes, builds and tests them, and brings you complete PRs to review with attached videos showing the changes.”
>I’d disagree with this being targeted toward normies. Reread the release. The first demographic in their copy is toward developers
I'm using "normies" to describe people who are not developers and they would not install something like OpenClaw on a Mac mini.
E.g. the OpenAI's 2-minute marketing video for Dot trying to show non-developers using AI assistants to get tasks done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXspbC2srEQ
A man wants his website changed, and a woman wants her presentation slides updated. "Serious engineers" don't need cutesy re-incarnated mascots of Microsoft's Bob or MS Office Clippy paperclip assistants. OpenAI dots doesn't have to win over HN techies who are comfortable with CLI tools.