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Instinct: The Personal Agent

From Colossus

By Patrick O'Shaughnessy

September 28, 2026

Instinct: The Personal Agent

Instinct: The Personal Agent

An Assistant That Just Works

PatrickI can't help but wonder about the grand game that is afoot here. When you really step back and think about what is happening right now, what is the game? What is going on here right now? If you had to sum it up, the thing you're in the middle of.

NoahYou're going up against the biggest players in the world. The window to do it is actually on the order of months. The compute required to do it is… just this year alone. And you have no distribution advantage, but you have this massively growing viral product.

PatrickWhat do you do?

NoahThis is probably the most exciting software race ever. And the outcome is trillions of dollars.

PatrickNoah, I know this is the first time that you're talking about the business in this long form like this. I'm incredibly excited to ask you all about it. It seems like we're in a moment with personal agents that is very similar and arguably probably bigger than what we saw with code generation a year or so ago. Maybe frame this up for us to begin. How are you thinking about the impact that — of course your product — but these agents are going to have on the world? Why is this the area that you've chosen to dedicate yourself to completely?

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