[The Cost of Instinct's 10% Daily Growth: Compute Power Demand Doubles Weekly, Founder Spends 40% of His Time on Purchasing Strategies] Beating AI News Flash: Noah Shinn, founder of personal AI Agent Instinct, revealed that in recent weeks, the platform's user base has been growing by approximately 10% to 11% daily, leading to compute power demand nearly doubling every week. Currently, Shinn spends about 40% of his time strategizing how much compute power to purchase in advance. The challenge lies in the fact that compute power cannot be acquired in real-time to match user growth. Shinn has done the math: if they only purchase twice the current compute power, it would be exhausted in about a week; purchasing five times the compute power would last less than three weeks; buying ten times the compute power would require a significant upfront investment. Many resources need to be reserved months in advance, and the cost of emergency compute power can be three to four times higher. Even if Instinct's daily growth rate slows to 5% to 8%, Shinn estimates that after three to four months of continuous growth, they might need to prepare compute power at the scale of 100 million users. The issue is that this timeline coincides with the waiting period required for new compute power to come online. If they purchase too little, they won't be able to sustain growth; if they purchase too much, and growth slows down, costs will be magnified. Shinn believes this is more challenging than scaling traditional consumer internet products. When platforms like Instagram or Facebook double their user base, the primary challenge is handling more requests; however, for personal AI Agents, each additional user continuously consumes significant model inference resources. He stated that the scaling speed Instinct is currently facing is even faster than similar issues previously encountered by Claude Code and Codex. [Original Link]