Instinct’s unusual choice is to make the message itself the interface. A user can ask it to manage a task through familiar communication channels rather than opening a dedicated app full of panels. The Verge’s new hands-on review suggests the experience is promising but still limited and invite-only.
The design question is whether a recurring task is better served by one short message than by another dashboard. That is a useful thought experiment for personal automation products.
Action: read the review and identify one task that would benefit from a text-first interface. Do not grant sensitive account access simply to experiment.