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November 13, 2026

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Keeping Dots on Task

By Cristiano Pierry

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Progress updates every 15 minutes seem to keep Dots working. I want reliable persistence and a way to organize long-running tasks.

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The blue-and-coral Dots avatar hovers beside a quarter-hour timer and a long paper checklist, with a small toucan perched on its distant curl.

My Dots seems to have an attention deficit disorder. It struggles with long-running tasks, but I’ve found a simple workaround: I ask it to send me a progress update every 15 minutes. That seems to keep it going.

Dots needs a reliable way to keep working until the task is finished. Progress updates are useful, but persistence shouldn’t depend on asking for them.

This also brings me back to threaded conversations. The more long-running work I hand off to Dots, the more I need a way to organize it, follow each task’s progress, and return to it later.

This writing reflects my personal perspectives on product management, AI, and content discovery. It does not represent the official position of my employer or any affiliated organization.