we built an instinct for dating, and 185k college students are already using it step 1: text @ditto_dates your type step 2: your agent goes on simulated dates with everyone else's agent, they book the time and place after finding a good match step 3: you just show up world's first agent that finds you huzz

Hot take: Instinct is going to be a bust. We've seen this so many times before: VC hype cycle, followed by a launch with massive fanfare, and then gone in 12 months or so.

Using Instinct for the past ~4 days, I've found it: - slow to respond - kind of dumb - sloppy with work And yet, I am still using it for everything: 693 messages yesterday alone. Feels like early Devin, this is the worst it'll ever be.

t.co/USMeX7r8Fs is better than instinct in my opinion. Time to long meta! IMO 1. faster than instinct, (cleanup my mail box takes 5 min?!) 2. meta integrations with instagram, facebook, messenger is unfairly good. 3. It will stay free forever. But meta now has access to my email, calendar, location, google contact and those additional signals will easily boost ad revenue even among existing ads. It’s an unfair infra game at the end of the days. Meta has its own model, own compute, and lots of profits from ads. Will be hard for startups to engage in this money sucking game. But I do think instinct will have great exits to Apple or google or Amazon so they will be fine!!

I have been using Instinct and Grok Bot for the last few weeks. Both are excellent products. I am going to try adding @Muse to the mix this week. Will report back with pros/cons to the others.

NYC AI assistants dinner Yes, I used Instinct to: - find multiple potential locations - negotiate and book the dinner - email all relevant details for dinner - follow up w guests to confirm attendance We had 50+ RSVPs for 15 spots, sounds like we need more of these!

bruhhhh whattt you can literally just text Instinct from Messages like you’re talking to a friend. I asked it to figure out a time for me and Tom to catch up. it talked to Tom’s Instinct, handled the coordination and came back with the plan. no back and forth. no “what time works for you?” no 15 messages trying to schedule something. your AI is literally talking to someone else’s AI for you now. this is the type of personal AI stuff I’ve been waiting for.

who’s building the Instinct/Muse/GrokBot equivalent but as infra for neobanks? there are 500+ neobanks all fighting to become the primary place consumers spend money. one way to differentiate could be an AI agent that can actually do things IRL: > order my usual Uber Eats for pickup > pay my electricity bill > book me the cheapest flight to Miami > find and cancel subscriptions I don’t use > dispute this charge for me imo almost no neobank is going to build this properly in house. the tech is improving too quickly and neobanks already have enough complexity to deal with across the banking stack. building and improving a personal AI agent would basically be another company inside the company. which opens up a pretty obvious opportunity for an infra player to build this once and make it available through a simple API/SDK. but the product has to go far beyond basic “AI for banking” features like reading transactions, moving money, or off-ramping USDC. it should actually be able to complete real world tasks on the user’s behalf, the same way products like Instinct work. Instinct reported that on average their users are spending $1,300+ per month. so for a neobank the ROI is obvious: > more card spend (more revenue) > higher retention > stronger differentiation who’s building the personal AI agent infra for neobanks? massive opportunity.

The next time I see someone say Muse or Instinct are "just OpenClaw, right?" my eyes are gonna roll into the back of my head How are you still making the HN Dropbox mistake in 2026?

instinct was a fantastic trip concierge in my pocket while in Paris for the trip it: - went through every rec I got, pulled out spots mentioned multiple times (or from people whose taste I trust like @nbobba) + cross referenced against online ratings - built a daily itinerary that factored in logistics like distance from hotel, wedding events, and timing buffers (I gave it examples of past itineraries I made for myself) - planned my runs off my coach's workouts. each run hit a diff part of the city + it built the loops in google maps so I could just open it and go in the AM - if I was ever wandering (usually wanting a coffee), could ask for the nearest recommended spot / anything else worth seeing in whatever neighborhood I was in and it would route me there don't worry, it didn't book my dinner reservations (it did email a few restaurants re: availability on my behalf tho)

$META 'We see a key advantage for Meta being scale & distribution' - Goldman Sachs With the introduction of several action-based consumer agents in the last few weeks (Spear Street Technology’s Instinct; Meta’s Muse AI; etc.), the consumer AI landscape has begun the process of undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift, transitioning rapidly from passive, conversational chatbots to proactive, autonomous agents capable of executing real-world tasks. We see the industry moving from simply answering questions to completing complex, high-value personal workflows such as travel booking, bill negotiation, calendar management, shopping, and administrative tasks.
Muse is Meta’s full scale personal AI agent app/website. We’d highlight a few key details/takeaways from the launch: Interface and Access: Users interact with Muse through dedicated iOS and Android applications, the web (t.co/cj96ljjy2t), and WhatsApp. Meta designed the product around existing messaging behaviors to minimize the learning curve. Capabilities: Powered by the Muse Spark 1.3 model family, which is optimized for long-horizon agentic tasks, Muse can autonomously browse the web, manage workflows, fill out forms, make purchases, and coordinate long-term goals. Monetization: Meta has initially launched the Muse product as a paid subscription (Meta’s first major foray into paid consumer AI subscriptions). Current subscription tiers include: Free Tier (capped at 100 million weekly tokens); Power Tier ($20/month for 500 million weekly tokens and faster response times); and Maximum Tier ($100/month for 3 billion weekly tokens and priority access). We see the potential for additional monetization avenues over time, including commerce (agentic commerce capabilities with potential to charge a take rate over time) and/or advertising. Infrastructure: Each user's agent runs inside an isolated Linux container on a dedicated virtual machine (Muse Secure VM) in the cloud, allowing it to continue executing tasks in the background after the user closes the application. Muse also has a number of partnership integrations to facilitate safe & secure interactions with various 3P networks, including most prominently Stripe (integration with Link’s wallet for agents to facilitate agentic commerce). Security & Privacy: The transition from information retrieval to autonomous execution introduces several security, privacy, and transactional challenges. To mitigate risks, Meta utilizes its Sentinel system, a system-isolated process that acts as the sole permission authority for network access and connector actions (with credentials and authentication tokens stored outside of the agent's runtime). Meta has confirmed that Muse data/content is fully encrypted (using the same technology featured in WhatsApp) and not shared with the company (excluded from its advertising systems, with sanitized interaction data used for model training by default unless users manually opt out).

As of today… Grok Bot is my squad of useful interns Muse is my new creative partner Town is my trusted sidekick / admin Instinct is my fixer / drug dealer

Personal AI needs its own benchmark If you use Muse, Grokbot, Instinct, OpenClaw, Hermes, vellum, etc... what’s the #1 thing it should measure?

instinct is actually insane, maybe my most used ai product.

Using Muse and Instinct recently, it's clear this is the future of communication. I no longer want to give out my real inbox to anything that my agent can manage, the killer feature of Instinct right now is being able to use it's own email to sign up for lists, newsletters, etc. Would be awesome if I could link it to my domain. Looks like we'll finally get our Gmail killer.

PREDICTION: Apps and sites built via personal AI agents will 1000x the total number that will be humans did in the next decade The platforms that lean to be agent-friendly will win big time in the long run I myself built 20 sites across @bot, Muse and Instinct alone in the last few days

so in a month we've speed ran 4 ai themes? - lab arr miss = bad ai - instinct + muse agents = good ai, bad internet - astra = good oai bad anthropic - dario/sam pacing = bad ai

Why choose between @Muse, @bot, and Instinct when you can have ALL of them? With @inkbox_ai identities, each of these agents has access to a dedicated phone number and their own emails. They even coordinate and share work over Inkbox's Agent2Agent channel. This setup is OP

Been using Instinct for the last 15 days. I like it, but I don’t understand the hype around it yet. It has been wrong several times, which makes me question how much I should actually rely on it. I’m still not comfortable with the amount of personal information involved and what happens to that data behind the scenes. There’s very little transparency around what is collected, how it is processed, where it goes, and how long it is retained. Maybe I’m missing something, but for me, accuracy + privacy + transparency matter more than the hype.

️ NEW EPISODE: TSMC Will Buy High NA After All: ASML's New 6x12-Inch Mask Austin and Vik break down ASML's High NA EUV, whose anamorphic optics cut the exposure field in half, the new 6x12-inch masks that restore the full field size, and what the change means for the mask supply chain. - High NA uses anamorphic optics with 4x by 8x demagnification - A 12-inch mask restores the full 26mm x 33mm field size - Samsung targets High NA for DRAM in 2028, ahead of TSMC. TSMC is interested now though! - Intel is a million wafers deep on its High NA learning curve - Nearly 30% of ASML's revenue is recurring services income Chapters: 0:00 Episode Opening 2:23 The Rise of AI Agents 6:00 Instinct: The Autonomous Agent 10:50 Productizing AI for Mass Adoption 14:03 From AI Agents to ASML 24:29 The Photomask Stitching Problem 31:49 High NA's Anamorphic Optics Tradeoff 36:39 The Cost of a Halved Reticle 37:26 The 6x12-Inch Mask Solution 39:08 A Full Supply Chain Problem 41:17 TSMC, Samsung & Intel Timelines 48:24 Intel's EUV History Lesson Get more of Austin and Vik daily, free! Sign up: t.co/7trwA2esP9 Connect with Vik and Austin: Vik's Paid Substack: t.co/yLJKcE3oMe Austin's Paid Substack: t.co/bTnS0luOzO @austinsemis @vikramskr

even my normie friends who use free tier gpt like google search are now all in on muse. if it’s @bot against @Muse, x likely needs a more consumer friendly pricing tier to have a shot competing against meta. at this rate muse will distribute at near zero cost mainstream then sneak into enterprise sooner than later. instinct is a dark horse but if it spreads too fast, makes sense for X to buy them.

i am truly loving all of these text message based ai agents that are completely free right now openclaw proved demand for every day agent harnesses and now all of these companies are setting money on fire so i can ask for recipes, book dune tickets, and snag yosemite campsites i stopped using poke because instinct and muse have been amazing

Using instinct to shame me is surprisingly working well

My Instinct texted me this, and it felt like a glimpse of AGI. An agent that just searches for ways to improve my life randomly, without even being asked.

Can the agents convince me of their uniqueness? Asked each of my agents to tell me why THEY specifically are the best at helping me. Here's Instinct, @muse, @bot and Hermes: So far I'm finding that it's a marketing word soup and no agent is aware of their unique selling points (maybe except Instinct and Hermes with the 'switch the brain') Codex on Astra gave me so much words that I'm going to have to add this in a separate post lol

we need a switchboard 2.0 for the world of ai for some real world human tasks, companies like instinct, grokbot, muse can hire outsourced contractors or humans to do some real world tasks for instance if agents keep screwing up resy accounts, why not outsource to a contractor service to handle those reservations for them

I’ve always had a (maybe self interested) violently negative reaction to the “product is trivial, it’s all distribution now” bros. Instinct is such a good illustration of why: the form factor and concept has been done many times before. But their execution of many small product details and choices is consistently better and lo and behold it has really broken out.

one of the big pieces of pushback I got on my instinct + resy posts was that I am an out of touch tech bro, nobody wants an AI agent, etc. which is exactly why instinct works! the entry point is texting a number in imessage, something ppl already do 100x a day. all the agent stuff is hidden from the user + lives on the backend maybe lots of people don't "want an agent" but everyone wants more leverage w/ their time

Meta is going to absolutely rip with Muse. Today is rhe worst day these AI agents will ever be and if the product is already mind blowing enough to get a user to willingly give their entire identity to it, these things are about to go parabolic as friction for onboarding goes down and use cases go up. Plus the integrated loop with Instagram, Whatsapp, and existing ecosystem is really strong. They need to bring to iMessage and then Instinct probably dies or sells to someone else who can continue to subsidize compute. The only person who can stop them is ByteDance for winning this vertical ATP. $META.

Townee, Poke, Instinct, Openclaw, Hermes, etc Are all distractions. Muse has proved it.

Been using Instinct for 2 weeks, tldr is EA jobs are probably gonna get eliminated... here're my biggest observations - it's helping an ENTP founder tremendously to become ENTJ without getting buried in day-to-day ops details - multi google account + password management is a hidden gem for adhd brains (security is a concern but the fundraise lends it some credibility) - stability glitches, probably limited compute - some auth issues (slack doesn't support multi account) are solved by browser use for now, hope it gets better - voice memo is the most expected feature Any tips I'm missing?

in this personal agent battle, muse and grok bot might lead over instinct. capital and compute will play a big role here. both muse and grok have parent cos. with immense capital and compute resources. instinct might raise a ton of capital, but getting access to compute in a compute starved world might be tricky.

My whole feed has been Muse and Instinct for the past few weeks. Meanwhile, we at @heyollieai are tied with Muse on online tasks in the new assistant benchmark. And we're the only one of the three that even got scored on group chats because that's where parents are. Nobody's coordinating soccer carpool in a single-player chat thread. X users might chase the hype, average parents just want Ollie to work every day. Thanks @DavidPawlan for benchmarking us and publishing the results.

"Google invented the transformer. OpenAI brought it to market first." Bucky Moore uses the analogy to describe how there may be a similar dynamic in AI agents. Startups [like Instinct] are willing to ship while incumbents are still debating the risks. "Startups are always going to be more nimble and have a higher risk appetite than large companies." "What we're about to see is whether the structural advantages of Meta, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic win out over the speed and risk appetite that startups clearly possess." @clairejyz @Machiz @buckymoore

AI personal assistants racing to see who can get sticky network effects faster Instinct: agent-to-agent network Muse: data network across Meta brands (Instagram, Marketplace, eventually WhatsApp)

Wouldn’t be surprised if agent-to-agent payments come to Instinct and Muse next in the form of addresses linked to the user The Venmo/Square Cash/X Money opportunity is high and every social graph wants to tap into the payments opportunity

Instinct is better than Grok Bot Been using Grok Bot (like Instinct and Muse) since they launched. Got free access through my Premium+ subscription. But the limit is way too low. Even paid access costs a lot. Can say that Instinct is much better for sure. t.co/gNXfxNWobu

On this topic, playing around with Muse this weekend and asking it and Instinct to do the same tasks, and Instinct is noticeably (sometimes SIGNIFICANTLY) slower and runs into more problems for the same or similar tasks - clearly compute constrained relatively, which is unsurprising. With more competition incoming, it's pretty clear that these types of consumer first agents are going to require other lock in that isn't just "great experience and some context" and the willingness to burn capital to monetize elsewhere will be needed.

Agent to agent communication will kill email The traditional inbox was anyways this protocol managed by human attention, and a rather fixed “agent” in personalization algorithms that attempted to triage your inbox (eg spam filtering, smart sorting) and help you coordinate (eg drafted auto reply). Agents that can act on your behalf take this protocol to the next level Email was always a free market on your attention. But agents will do a better job facilitating both inward and externally My wife banned me from telling my Instinct agent to talk to her Instinct agent, I had too many coordination requests in the queue. Sounds absurd but it’s a new social norm being invented

Got 15 Instinct invites. If you’d like one, what would you do with a personal AI agent?

If your inbound leads are waiting until morning for a response, you’re probably losing pipeline. I built a Grok voice bot that calls new demo leads in under 60 seconds, re-qualifies them, and routes the good ones to sales. That’s the system I’m building live this Wednesday: -Grok voice bot for speed-to-lead -Meta Muse for prospecting + follow-up drafts -Instinct Agent for persistent text follow-up -GPT-6 Astra for finding funnel leaks Wednesday 9/16 at 1:30pm CT / 11:30am PT. Completely free. Register below

Instinct has managed to sort out council tax, electoral roll, and my GP registration Moving house is getting easier by the day

A year ago, i wrote about personal ai. a friend read it last week and told me it was the best essay he read on this, so im reposting it: t.co/Tcv79Cb9SJ A year later, we've had poke, instinct, muse. viral products, yes, but lacking that iykyk kind of inspiration

I did not realize there are so many agents already live. might go ahead and test them all. from a quick glance, most of them look like iMessage based general purpose agents like Instinct or Poke some are use-case-specific (soar for travel) t.co/j1XKGsxuq5

Started using Instinct for almost everything operational lol Tracks my WHOOP recovery, plans trips, finds flights and stays, chases missing deliveries, emails support with the right receipts attached, and follows up until things are fixed. Texting on WhatsApp is pretty convenient.

Id there anyone who has been wanting to try to Instinct and still looking for an invite? I have a few

For people using both instinct and muse Curious what use cases you give each On my side thinking muse only for things integrated with meta. But using instinct for all of life stuff.

"ChatGPT / Claude already does this" Is missing point when it comes to Instinct. Could be the true ai consumer layer if executed right.

The 11 Instinct AI @noahrshinn prompts I've found most helpful - steal than, and comment with any you recommend. . . "I have [insurer]. Pull my EOBs and annual statement, reconcile every claim, flag anything denied or billed above patient responsibility, and draft the appeals. Send nothing without my approval." . . "Audit my full order history for refunds I never received, price drops, and double charges. Recover what you can." . . "Flight [number] on [date] was delayed [X] hours. Check whether I'm owed compensation through the airline, travel insurance, or my credit card, and file for everyone on the booking." (This one alone was $1,200.) . . "Audit my card statements for every recurring charge, check last use date, and give me a cancel/downgrade list before touching anything." . . "Check my [airline] account for miles from past flights that never posted and file the claims." . . "Register me on the national and state Do Not Call lists, set up every spam blocker my carrier and iPhone offer, then find my personal info on people-search and data broker sites and get it removed." . . "Watch [restaurant] for a table for [party size] Friday or Saturday and book anything between 8 and 9pm." . . "Find [exact product] at the cheapest delivered price to my home. Take it to the checkout screen so I can see the real total, then text me to confirm." . . "Audit my [internet/wireless] bill, find the fees and rate increases, then run the retention play — threaten to cancel, push until you've got their best offer, and bring it to me before accepting. Do not cancel." . . "Book me 1pm at the highest-rated place within walking distance with availability, [$$-$$$]." . . "Search every state's unclaimed property database for me and my family — old accounts, refunds, deposits. My prior addresses are [X, Y]. File the claims." @DavidPawlan

Woah... been playing with an Instinct agent, testing what all it can do. It just designed a 3d print file for me. I wonder if I could connect a Webcam to it and let it babysit the printer too!

Some industries are going to get hit really hard from Muse, Instinct, and Grok Bot, and we’re going to see it very clearly in fortune 500 Q4 earnings

There are some good demonstrations of AI agents in video form to embed in a presentation. I've got some good ones of consumer facing like Muse. But what about more corp demos? Even raw ones like OpenClaw or instinct would be good.

Sorry to ask this but I would like to look into Instinct and its invite-only. Please DM me. Thank you. @noahrshinn

muse and grok bot are here to stay. instinct will vanish just like openclaw did. just like clubhouse did.

The coolest part about using Instinct is it takes 30 minutes to respond, similar to texting an actual tech bro