Four non-tech users all tried 'text this person' first with a personal AI — and it failed every time
manosaie · x · 2026-09-16
The author watched 4 non-technical people onboard to Instinct, a personal AI, and all of them picked "text this person" as their first use case — a telling signal of how much people want to delegate digital communication when the AI lives inside personal messaging. None of the four attempts worked, suggesting the edges of "personal intelligence" remain jagged.
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