OpenAI's Codex lead Tibo says his work dot and personal dot coordinated over email with his accountant to file tax documents in 20 minutes
My work dot "Burger" coordinated with my personal dot "Dorito" over email at my personal dots request to get documents, which then coordinated with with my CPA in order to file some tax stuff. Took 20 minutes. We're still so early.
Context
The example shows OpenAI's dots acting as agents that talk to each other and to outside people, a step beyond answering questions in a chat.
This is a first hand anecdote from Tibo, who leads Codex at OpenAI, about his own use of dots. It is a single example, and he did not share screenshots or details of what the agents had access to.
Deep dive
On October 17, Tibo posted that his work dot, named Burger, coordinated with his personal dot, named Dorito, over email at the personal dot's request to get documents. He wrote that the dots then coordinated with his CPA, a certified public accountant, in order to file some tax stuff.
He said the whole exchange took 20 minutes, and added: We're still so early.
Dots are personal AI agents in ChatGPT, each with its own name and character. Tibo's post suggests a person can run separate dots for work and personal life, and that they can email each other and outside people to complete a task.
The example follows other OpenAI posts this week about what dots can do. On October 16, OpenAI Developers showed an engineer using his dot to investigate an on call incident at 3am and start a Codex thread, and ChatGPT announced dot widgets for the iPhone Home Screen, both covered in the October 16 deck.
Tibo did not say what the documents were, whether he reviewed the emails before they were sent, or what permissions each dot had to his work and personal accounts. Sharing tax documents between work and personal agents raises questions about privacy and company data policies that the post does not address.
What to expect next
Watch whether OpenAI publishes guidance on how dots handle email, outside contacts and sensitive documents such as tax records, and what approvals users can require before an agent sends anything.
Also watch whether more users report dots completing errands that involve other people, and how employers respond to work agents sharing data with personal ones. Rivals such as Grok Bot, Claude and Google's Gemini offer their own agents, so comparisons on tasks like this are likely.