Instinct, on X

Rak Garg
@rak_garg
#1Mon, Aug 24 4:26pm ET

Instinct in the past 15 days has: 1. found and booked me with a new dentist 2. found and booked me with a new in-network acupuncturist 3. found and scheduled an appt with a cobbler for a bunch of things I needed to get fixed 4. deleted 6k marketing and fluff emails 5. sends a daily digest of newsletters w/ just the things I need to pay attention to 6. schedules date nights w/ my wife based on both of our calendar availabilities 7. makes vet appointments for our dog's allergy shots 8. makes padel bookings for me when they open 9. is talking to various dealers / private party sellers for a car I'm looking at buying at the very least this thing is my liaison to the entire medical/healthcare system and I am better off for it

What people said back

Replies mostly wanted logistics: which car, which cobbler, whether it comes with health insurance. A few asked for invites, one noted the list is really about self-care, and one warned against pointing agents at your master inbox.

Adam Waxman
@ajwaxman
#2Mon, Aug 24 9:09pm ET

Inspired by Instinct, I decided to play around with a ticket tracking agent. Very impressed with @PhotonHQ + @evedev_. Was able to get something up and running in just a couple hours!

What people said back

Warm and practical: someone from SeatGeek asked how it sourced seat pricing and floated building an extension, others asked for the architecture or the phone number, and a few shared their own single-purpose ticket bots.

TechCrunch
@TechCrunch
#3Mon, Aug 24 2:05pm ET

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs t.co/0HRs7HC3EM

What people said back

Split between people saying the trade-offs give them pause and people saying it's a closed beta being judged on an HTML privacy policy. One quote-poster said his security concerns got no reply until the agent itself messaged him about the article.

Andrew Lee
@startupandrew
#4Mon, Aug 24 1:30pm ET

There's been a lot of buzz about — and criticism of — Instinct over the last few days. Building an agent that YOLOs it can produce impressive results. Building an agent that you can actually trust with real data & responsibilities is much harder. At @TaskletAI much of what we do is giving businesses enough control that they can trust agents for real, consequential work. Here's a few things we to make this real

What people said back

Broadly agreement, plus one Instinct user saying an earlier version of this argument convinced him to sign up for Tasklet. Others asked practical permission questions, including one dealing with patient data.

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@plumberbutt97
#5Mon, Aug 24 9:22pm ET

The new $META Hatch will take the world by storm. Instinct has taken Silicon Valley by storm and Hatch will be Instinct on steroids. If Meta executes, Hatch could be Instinct for 1–3 billion mainstream users, with far deeper native integrations.

Krishna Hegde
@PositiveGamma
#6Mon, Aug 24 2:06am ET

Instinct is so good, I have now pinned it at the top of my Whatsapp. Queries that would have been made on Google 12 months ago and Claude/ChatGPT last month are now making their way to Instinct. Also, the way it helps me stay on top of my different Whatsapp discussions/plans

What people said back

Almost entirely invite requests, with a chorus of plus-ones. One reply zoomed out to say always-on VMs plus self-triggering agents were the long-awaited step.

Jesse Middleton
@srcasm
#7Mon, Aug 24 2:32pm ET

The Instinct conversation keeps splitting into "cool demos" vs "scary permissions." The harder question Andrew is raising here: can you build an agent a CFO will hand live financial data to? That engineering problem is where @startupandrew and @TaskletAI spend their days, and it's where I think the most durable value gets built. Keep in mind, We are an investor but I also like the uniqueness that each platform offers. So much opportunity ahead!

@startupandrew: There's been a lot of buzz about — and criticism of — Instinct over the last few days. Building an agent that YOLOs it can produce impressive results. Building an agent that you can actually trust with real data & responsibilities is much harder. At @TaskletAI much of what we do
Ayush
@ay_ushr
#8Mon, Aug 24 6:15am ET

I am very okay with giving agents my card as long as it has good confirmation mechanisms (eg with Instinct). I find the experience pretty seamless for me already I'm sure some of these agent protocols like x402 / MPP are better designed in theory, but tbh I'm not seeing a need for them I can't think of any common use case I have that wouldn't work with existing card rails

the funny thing about 'agentic payments' is that they're here, probably doing significantly more volume than x402 or MPP - it's just that it's coming through computer use or CLIs you're signed into already
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@toptickcrypto
#9Mon, Aug 24 9:30am ET

There have been efforts around private inference on TEEs that were highly experimental but I think open-weight models are getting to the point someone has the opportunity to create a verifiably private t.co/n8YoW0Vv8j that could find pmf.

What people said back

Short agreement all around, with a couple of replies arguing the stack is finally ready and that distribution, not the cryptography, is the actual moat.

sania
@saniaio
#10Mon, Aug 24 4:34pm ET

related: got an instinct invite if anyone wants it t.co/6lDo5gg5Sx

@saniaio: really hate to admit that imessage is just the superior agent interface experience when it comes to mobile
taylor desseyn
@tdesseyn
#11Mon, Aug 24 8:00pm ET

i’ve officially replaced @bot with @skydive and instinct. and honestly it’s not even close. i am absolutely floored.

Maya Shah
@mayamshahh
#12Mon, Aug 24 6:06pm ET

im surprised ppl still tweet about ai bots (instinct in particular this last week) deleting emails as an accomplishment i actually dont rlly understand why marketing emails need to be deleted other than cleaniness? its not that deep