TL;DR of my new article: the 9 Instinct prompts people are actually running.
Instinct is three weeks old and invite-only, and The Information says it is already in talks to raise another $1B at a $10B valuation, two weeks after being valued at $2.5B. The public argument about it is a privacy fight. Meanwhile the people who actually have it are quietly using it to find money. I ran @slashlast30days on it eight times, then six direct X sweeps, and pulled the 9 prompts worth stealing.
💰 The unclaimed-property sweep. @peterpham's tip got him $845. My tightened version got $2,182.72 across 5 properties, found my SSN proof, and signed the forms off a passport photo. Then @morganb ran my exact wording and posted $2,222.57
🧾 @EliLanger's Amazon back-refund audit: a numbered checklist across your ENTIRE order history, not just recent orders. His run took 5 hours over 16 years of purchases. Check the refund card is still active first
✈️ Track the fare after you already bought it and chase the airline for the difference (@DavidPawlan). It tracked fine, then needed a human for the actual call
🔭 Monitor-and-book as a standing order. @VoyageBliss connected secondary frequent-flyer accounts instead of his primary, and scoped a read-only token for everything else. Read-only, single purpose, revocable
📸 Screenshots plus "can you do this for me". Six words got a soccer registration form filled, a password reset, and a birth certificate pulled out of an old email
☎️ Bill negotiation with a hand-back. @pitdesi went $100 to $60 on Comcast. When it hit a wall it handed him the number AND the exact script. The call took 3 minutes
📬 Forward the email instead of connecting the inbox. Your Instinct got its own address on Sept 8, so you can hand it one thread instead of your whole account
🔍 "Show me your activity log." @jbahrdestefano got banned by Resy, asked his bot what it had been doing, and found a reservation monitor quietly running 200 API requests an hour around the clock. He called the ban fair
🏷️ Make it prefix every message with an ALL-CAPS project tag (@EliLanger). Everything lives in one iMessage thread, and that is currently the only way to search it
🧨 The honest part: two of the nine payloads are the exact wording the person posted. I wrote the other seven from what they described, in the shape of the two that provably worked. And Reddit produced nothing usable in 8 runs, because everyone who can actually run these is posting on X
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