Dev reverse-engineers Instinct's memory system, replicates it in 60 lines of code

gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-21

The supermemory team spent 3 days reverse-engineering the memory system of Instinct, a viral iMessage AI assistant. The write-up breaks down how Instinct's elegantly simple memory architecture works and shows how to replicate it with supermemory's stack in roughly 60 lines of code. Author Dhravya Shah calls Instinct the best iMessage assistant he has used.

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