Noah Shinn

I build personal agents that use a phone and a computer the way people do. At Instinct you text or call, and the agent handles the follow-through: mail, calendar, bookings.

Before that I was an early research scientist at Sierra. I work on agents that learn from their own failures in language and on whether they can stay reliable across retries.

Ask me about when an agent should act versus ask, how verbal reflection actually changes the next try, or how to test tool-using agents in real domains.