Instinct AI agent review, week two: a week and a half with the personal AI agent you text on iMessage and WhatsApp. The proactive moments that feel magical (it caught a plain-text password in my sent email), the black-box task tracking that made me lose trust, and why I still won’t add my card.
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Part 1 (first two days, setup, the privacy policy opt-out): https://youtu.be/JaL4wjQKR7k
Timestamps
00:00 The one problem no AI agent has solved
00:11 A week and a half with Instinct
00:43 The UK tax residency task: don’t contact me until Monday
01:26 Blocked four days later
01:59 It sends PDFs over WhatsApp
02:13 The black box: which tasks did it capture?
02:36 Losing trust in the system
03:15 I never connected Todoist or Linear
04:16 The magical part: real proactivity
04:30 It caught a plain-text password in my email
05:42 Proactive, but not always relevant
06:44 The over-enthusiastic intern problem
07:20 Using Instinct for general questions (which model?)
08:07 Frictionless: no model or context-limit chatter
09:17 Is it just people on the other end?
10:09 No visibility into what runs across your inbox
11:17 Saving a card and letting Instinct pay
11:45 Personal vs business: why I won’t add my card yet
12:42 Instinct-to-Instinct: want to test it with me?
13:15 Verdict: frustrating but optimistic
Links:
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