Sheel Mohnot's Fifteen Chores And The Great Invite Scramble

What people were saying

Today had a center of gravity, and it was @pitdesi's inventory of fifteen things Instinct did for him in five days across 677 messages: found an in-network podiatrist and filled out the paperwork, talked his Comcast bill from $100 to $60 (well, it hit a wall and handed him a script and a number, and the call took three minutes), negotiated with wedding merch vendors on WhatsApp overnight because they're in India, booked spa slots that weren't bookable online, got a DMV appointment, killed his Amazon Subscribe & Save subscriptions, linked two separately-booked United itineraries, and paid a toll he'd photographed plus a second toll he didn't know he had. His framing, which several people borrowed: other assistants are things you operate, this is one you employ.

@illscience wrote the day's other long post, a comparison of Instinct, Grok Bots and ChatGPT Work. His key variable was "presumptuousness": how much permission the agent assumes. Instinct scored high. It couldn't get into a website, so it reset the password and finished the job, which he called resourceful and also slightly insane. Both descriptions seem right.

The praise

A lot of short, slightly embarrassed endorsements. @clairevo regrets to inform everyone it's good. @thogge had three wow moments in twelve hours and put it at 100x Poke. @austin_rief is skeptical of hyped AI products and called this one magical anyway. @cuysheffield liked that it researched who he was before the first message. @poolnoodle93 is collecting wedding chair quotes and predicts agent-driven price normalization for real-world services, which is either exciting or ominous depending on whether you sell chairs.

The pushback

The sharpest hit came from a quote-post arguing the whole list is VC problems in a normie costume: the average person is not organizing wellness retreats or touring an Amazon fulfillment center. @melodykoh praised the speed and context ramp but stalled at handing over logged-in browser sessions, noting she gets a possibly false sense of safety from watching Claude work on her own machine. One quote-poster's bike helmet purchase died in a ShopPay confirmation loop. @oscrhong said the quiet part: probably not ToS-compliant, definitely useful. And @operationdanish offered the four-word bear case: the new Clubhouse.

Notable anecdotes

A reply under the big thread claims Instinct identified the sender of a returned certified letter that USPS couldn't trace. @saadmoldy has it reading his X feed and summarizing, and says the post announcing this was itself written by Instinct.