Reverse-engineering Instinct's memory: a beautifully simple 60-line design
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-21
Dhravya Shah spent 3 days reverse-engineering the memory system of Instinct, a viral iMessage assistant, calling it beautifully simple and highly effective.
The article breaks down exactly how Instinct's memory works and shows how to replicate the mechanism in supermemory with 60 lines of code. Commenters quip that this engineering-style memory design is what it takes to solve 'continual learning'.
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