Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent • Hacker News Board

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by jvwww » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC

moomoo11 wrote: post #136

dools wrote: post #91

I love how the marketing departments of these things always imagine people are just constantly plagued by the hassle of organising their flights, restaurant bookings and movie tickets

these are all tarpit ideas i've gone on many trips before, and one of the most fun parts of it is doing the actual planning and finding stuff i'd much rather AI do the boring shit, like when it comes to insurance with multiple parties and service providers involved that don't talk to each other at all, making things 10x more complicated than they need to be

To each their own, I don't enjoy planning things in the slightest.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by jvwww » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 12:17 AM UTC

santiago-pl wrote: post #90

Right now we have those OpenClaw commercial alternatives: Grok Bot, Muse, Viktor. Anything more?

Instinct, Town, Orchid, Pally, Poke, folk, it's a never ending list.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by jvwww » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 12:18 AM UTC

exizt88 wrote: post #27

I'd give a lot to see the WA group chat between the Instinct founder and their VCs.

Meta's work on this has been known in the valley for some time now so all the VC's who invested in Instinct's recent huge raise would have known about it.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by webern777 » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC

magicmicah85 wrote: post #252

abixb wrote: post #234

I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…

Literally what I was about to comment. This is meant to capture the normies, the busy parents managing school and work, the grandparents who want to make most of their retirement. I am trying it now. It let me name my muse as Satan. I appreciate that it understands my humor, but I'm also not joking at the same time.

My parents are in their 70s and retired, I can't even vaguely imagine what they would use this for.

If they have any problems in life, it is that they have too much time on their hands already. An AI agent that automates tasks so they have more free time is exactly what they would not want.

What they really want is something worth spending their time on. That is what everyone pretty much wants but instead we get this bullshit.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by Terr_ » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 12:52 AM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #497

psychoslave wrote: post #494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is a16z please?

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.

The name has always made me think it was a bunch of corporate lawyers. I suppose the difference is increasingly academic.

Re: Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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Post by noisy_boy » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC

ArnoVW wrote: post #447

willsmith72 wrote: post #385

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ah what a throwback.. I thought I was so efficient copy pasting all day long

I call it by it's official name: MCP (Manual Copy-Paste)

MCP when token budget is running low. The web interface is token frugal because it has to work with whatever I provide.