@mtsliveOct 21

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic just announced Claude Duet, an app where Claude keeps working for you even after you step away. • It’s a proactive agent that comes to you with what needs attention, finishes tasks you hand it, and runs on its own cloud computer • Every morning it checks your email and calendar, flags what matters, and drafts replies for you to approve • Built on Opus 5.5, it connects to 6,000+ apps like Stripe, Notion, QuickBooks, and Ramp, and carries over your Claude memory and skills • It asks first before sending messages, paying, or signing anything • It’s a waitlist-only research preview for Pro and Max subscribers in the US @theojaffee: "It’s like Dots, it’s like Grok Bot. It’s like Muse, it’s like Instinct. It’s actually a little more than Instinct, I think. So it looks really exciting. Can’t wait to use it."

@aakashguptaOct 21

An AI agent got a $250 delay credit out of Delta for one person. Another one cancelled $1,300 a month in subscriptions its owner forgot about. Then I saw the ranking of all nine of these agents built on what users say in public, and the one I use every day came in 6th. Meta’s Muse is #1 with a score of 70.5. @feedbackbench is a new site from Enterpret for comparing AI personal agents on what real users say about them. It read Reddit, X, YouTube and both app stores from August 31 to October 18, kept only the posts where someone described their own use, and scored each agent on popularity and customer love. I’ve been using Instinct the most, so I had a horse in this. Instinct sits 6th at 46, behind OpenClaw and Hark (haven’t tried Hark yet). Hermes is 2nd and Grok Bot 3rd. Now hold the money up against that board. Instinct just raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation and sits two points above Google. Nous Research, which builds Hermes, got to 2nd on a $90 million raise at $1.5 billion. Zuckerberg said last week Meta was ready to spend up to $200 billion on AI without knowing if it would work, and its agent is the one at the top. Gemini Spark scores 44 and ChatGPT Dots 39, both below Instinct. That matches what I found when I tested both. The Delta credit and the cancelled subscriptions only happen if you let the thing into your inbox and your card, so trust is the whole product here. For my money this is the most interesting market in AI this year, and this is the first scoreboard for it that somebody other than the vendors wrote. Built by @enterpret_ai, link in the reply.

@alliekmillerOct 21

Instinct and @noahrshinn have shut off my access to the calling feature. Not sure if it's shut off for everyone or just mine because I had and shared a negative experience. If it's the latter, that would be a pretty shortsighted way to handle honest feedback. If others have access to it, let me know.

@alliekmillerOct 20

AI making calls to humans on behalf of other humans is still weird to me. Ex: I wanted to know if Michaels had a unicorn balloon in stock and how long it would take to inflate. I asked Instinct Concierge to handle it. First call went to voicemail. Second call was picked up by a human. Instinct chatted with the human, got the answer, and texted me back. Instinct doesn’t give you the transcript or a recording, so I have zero idea what the process looks like. Was the AI nice? Was it annoying? Did it give my full name? Was it easy to understand? I don’t love the idea of zero transparency on these interactions. Feels like we’re deprioritizing humans or hiding performance under the guise of privacy.