Hi folks,

How tf do I write an intro to the craziness that’s happened since the end of last week?!

I got access to Instinct, the personal agent all the VCs are raving about - I think it’s a bit meh? I don’t know if it’s the pro-activeness that people seem to like, but I don’t love that. Makes me feel like I’m having to do work to keep it happy, or like I’ve got a boss again - no thanks.

The first message it sent me was:

I sh*t myself a lil bit and thought, please don’t start sending emails on my behalf. And I’m pretty savvy (ish) with agents. I’ve no doubt getting these onboarding experiences for everyone is really hard, but I just don’t feel the magic yet. It also feels slow.

I’ll wait for Muse access to see what that’s like, but I don’t love the idea of giving Meta access to more info about me…they’re not the most reliable of privacy partners.

And another thing - you don’t see by default what these agents remember about you, or what context they have. I really like being able to see and edit what’s in my files to steer my agents.

Much like every app adding an AI assistant chat box in their product, I unfortunately think every AI company will start shipping their own personal agents.

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Dario Amodei has a new essay: Pace the frontier. He says all the leading labs should slow down long enough for safety reasons. Sam Altman agrees, but Trump does not. He called Jensen Huang on stage at the All-In Summit: The US will not lose the AI race. David Sacks (AI czar for the US govt.) adds: feel free to slow down, but no need to impose it on others. Also read:

• More AI safety takes: two ways AI goes bad · it’s all for the IPO · pacing = losses · fear spreads faster · case for open-source and quite a long summary of what everyone’s actually saying.

• No IPO for OpenAI in 2026. Sam told Fortune’s Alyson Shontell it would be “ill-timed” given the work ahead on alignment, control and safety.

• Look ma! They are misuing claude again - Another Anthropic crashout.

tldraw took OpenAI up on a challenge. Steve (the founder of tldraw) said he could make ChatGPT’s Sketch 100x better. OpenAI’s Tibo gave him a day to prove it. The result: a whole ChatGPT-style prototype with better drawing tools built in.

Ben Tossell @bentossell this is insane - steve says he can make the sketch 100x better - tibo says do it by tomorrow - steve runs a walkthough of a chatgpt app they built with the product in it and 100x better (the products they built i in their replies - its this …w-chat-app-example.tldraw.workers.dev ) tldraw @tldraw Here you go, link in the next post https://t.co/HIyZvKM4l8 8:10 PM · Sep 10, 2026 · 156K Views 22 Replies · 7 Reposts · 550 Likes

ChatGPT mini - A tiny floating widget to start chats, see updates, and more. Go to Pets in your ChatGPT desktop app to switch.

Claude Code can now test whether a plugin actually helps. Run the same tasks with and without it and compare the results. Works with skills too.

Two new additions to the OpenAI API:

• GPT-Live-1 - the model behind ChatGPT’s new Voice mode. I love using it while reading books, asking about tricky terms and dictating notes. Now you can add it to your products. Here it is with Astra and a whiteboard, playing teacher.

• Agents API - OpenAI’s take on Managed Agents in the Claude API. It lets developers send any task to a Codex-like agent from their apps without worrying about configuring all the infra.

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David Bellamy @DavidRBellamy I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands. And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus. 5:24 PM · Sep 13, 2026 · 1.27M Views 462 Replies · 1.52K Reposts · 11.8K Likes

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec Prompt I use a lot: "how can I pokayoke this so this kind of error never happens again" pokayoke is using simple, low-complexity methods to make a particular kind of mistake impossible to make. classic one would be connector shape: make it impossible to insert "the wrong way". 9:54 PM · Sep 14, 2026 · 26.2K Views 9 Replies · 24 Reposts · 415 Likes

Adrianna Lakatos @adriannalakatos i scraped 85 million birthdays and used astra to make a website that tells you how rare your birthday is. birthdaytraffic.com 7:15 AM · Sep 12, 2026 · 203K Views 237 Replies · 56 Reposts · 1.67K Likes

almonk @almonk idk about anyone else, but I find it really hard to dictate what I'm thinking. typing unlocks something in my brain that speaking just doesn't. 12:38 PM · Sep 14, 2026 · 110K Views 272 Replies · 53 Reposts · 1.73K Likes

Thariq @trq212 I talked to Sid & Robert about building Claude Code: how much things have changed, how hard it's been to keep up with model capabilities and also what we miss about software engineering before AI. youtube.com How the Claude Code team uses Claude Code 5:29 PM · Sep 14, 2026 · 54.3K Views 51 Replies · 42 Reposts · 396 Likes

eric provencher @pvncher When you want Astra to review snapshots of your app, ask it to collage them into a contact sheet to minimize the number of image read calls it needs to do. You’ll save a ton of context usage This works for fable too! 9:23 PM · Sep 12, 2026 · 156K Views 62 Replies · 37 Reposts · 1.28K Likes

Romain Huet @romainhuet I sat down with AI leaders from @figma , @Box , @cognition , @tryramp , BAM, and the one and only @clairevo to hear how they’re using Astra. Optimizing GPU kernels, revamping workflows with computer use, designing many consistent screens… Amazed by what they’d done in just days! 🌌 4:18 PM · Sep 11, 2026 · 40.3K Views 16 Replies · 25 Reposts · 182 Likes

Peter Cooper @cooperx86 On macOS and wanna see something interesting? Ask your agent: "look at ~/Library/Application Support/Knowledge/knowledgeC.db and tell me some interesting facts" I had no idea this stuff was all getting logged and it can infer a lot about your activity. 6:06 PM · Sep 12, 2026 · 323K Views 43 Replies · 106 Reposts · 2.96K Likes

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