Brett Caughran(@FundamentEdge):I’ve become reflexively skeptical of the coordinated “VC launch slop” playbook on X But I actually have a fairly large spec of personal logistics things I’ve been trying to accomplish with a text based agent. I tried to do this with Ollie AI but it just made too many errors. Grok Bot was too slow and buggy (hope it improves). But Instinct, the fake “invite and waiting list” manipulation notwithstanding, is actually pretty awesome. Has quickly carved through many personal tasks on my to do list. For investing work, this sort of interface UX will be awesome for investors who travel 15-35%+ of the time and want to direct their investing agents to do work while they are away from the desk (in the same fashion a PM today will direct an analyst back at the office to do work)

2026.08.27 22:58

I’ve become reflexively skeptical of the coordinated “VC launch slop” playbook on X But I actually have a fairly large spec of personal logistics things I’ve been trying to accomplish with a text based agent. I tried to do this with Ollie AI but it just made too many errors. Grok Bot was too slow and buggy (hope it improves). But Instinct, the fake “invite and waiting list” manipulation notwithstanding, is actually pretty awesome. Has quickly carved through many personal tasks on my to do list. For investing work, this sort of interface UX will be awesome for investors who travel 15-35%+ of the time and want to direct their investing agents to do work while they are away from the desk (in the same fashion a PM today will direct an analyst back at the office to do work)

Noah Shinn@noahrshinn

2026.08.26 19:11

I’m Noah, the founder of Instinct. Instinct is a personal agent that we’ve been building for the past few months. The interface is simple: there are no new interfaces. You can text or call it. It's trained to use a phone and a computer in the same way that humans do. Instinct combines simplicity with extreme capability. I’m thrilled with everything our early users are doing with Instinct. They’ve told us they’ve planned cross-country road trips, bought weekly groceries and concert tickets, and cancelled hundreds of dollars of subscriptions. Someone’s even planning their wedding with Instinct. We want to make Instinct the best personal agent for all of you. It’s available in an invite-only beta program while we’re actively bringing up more compute. I’m excited to see what you all do with it.

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