## OpenAI Dots: The Data Scientist’s Reality Check Dots promises a lot. Before you hand it the keys to your workflow, here's what practitioners need to know. On September 29, OpenAI announced Dots at its DevDay 2026 conference: always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computers, connect to more than 4,000 apps, and keep working after you close your laptop. It's the most concrete version yet of something the AI industry has been describing for years: an agent that acts more like a coworker than a chatbot. For the data science and machine learning community, Dots deserves more than a…