Hacker News: jmuguy

New comment by jmuguy in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

jmuguy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:54:07 +0000

Well specifically with just the AI agent/customer support product I think businesses would do well to handle this themselves rather than hoping a one size fits all solution from Intercom would serve them. Not just from a bespoke AI solution but also on cost. The other aspects of Intercom's product, the little chat bubble, CRM, can be had for much much less from dozens of competitors.

I think they mostly benefit from time in market and name recognition. The AI angle was a good bet to make when they made it, but is increasingly less of a differentiator.

I don't think SaaS is dead - but I think for a product like Intercom, that is very expensive, they get eaten alive by smaller SaaS + in-house AI agent.

New comment by jmuguy in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"

jmuguy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:13:28 +0000

Intercom is definitely one of those SaaS that I figured had essentially zero value prop once businesses figured out how to train their own support agents, so congrats to them for exiting before that happens.

New comment by jmuguy in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

jmuguy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:41:43 +0000

In the movie Revenge of the Nerds, they basically rape someone. So I dunno, being a "nerd" doesn't necessarily imply you're also a good person. Mark Zuckerberg is definitely a nerd, and he's also a piece of shit.

I also think its another variation of that trope that the people that seek power are the very ones you don't want to have it. And those that don't care about it are the ones we need to seek it. Take Woz for example.

New comment by jmuguy in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

jmuguy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:59:19 +0000

Yeah its hard to deny just the raw throughput from the AI. Like it really is doing work in hours that would take me days.

But those times when I had to drop down into a repl and play around with the output of a method. Or try different ways of doing what anyone else would think is boring, like array manipulation - that's a lot of what I actually LIKE to do.

A big part of me just hopes I can hang in there for another... decade, or two. Then I can retire! Maybe.

New comment by jmuguy in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

jmuguy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:38:42 +0000

I don't see a lot of talk about how AI development breaks the old feedback loop of write code, watch it run, change it, repeat. I really hate sitting around waiting for the agent to get done planning, reading the plan, then waiting for the agent to get done coding. It's those 5-10 minute windows when its working that really sap my patience and suck all the fun out of our jobs. Writing code by hand is just more fun.

New comment by jmuguy in "The iPhone's Last Stand"

jmuguy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:23:01 +0000

Thompson is speaking broadly about markets, not trying to put anyone down. The point he's getting at is that Apple and MS are just playing (or trying to play) to their strengths. Did you see anything in the new Siri AI demos that looked all that much like someone getting work done? I didn't. And that's fine, for Apple and the iPhone. Microsoft for better or for worse is what a large part of the American business world is using to get work done, and so Microsoft is trying to position their AI strategy towards that.

For what its worth I wish Apple would care more about those of us that want to use AI to actually do work and not these weird contrived examples asking if focaccia can be made gluten free. And I personally couldn't care less what Microsoft does as I'm lucky enough to never have to use their products outside of Github.

New comment by jmuguy in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

jmuguy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:23:45 +0000

He also predicted the future for after the merger.

Its funny - of all the stuff people make up that was Obama's fault, no one ever mentions his admin allowing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to merge. Now they need to be broken up, probably like the Bell System back in the day. But I'll keep on dreaming about that.

New comment by jmuguy in "Siri AI"

jmuguy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:54:03 +0000

This is disappointing. I had hoped when Apple revisited AI that they would lean into agents more and give us some sort of agent interface between the phone and a model running locally on your Mac at home. More niche for sure, but much more powerful. Instead we're getting more generic AI tie-ins to apps and "suggestions".

New comment by jmuguy in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

jmuguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:58:03 +0000

The irrational exuberance around Tesla was at least somewhat grounded in reality. There were some possible future(s) where it was really going to take off and completely redefine the auto industry. Then of course things went really off the rails with the Cybertruck, pivot to robotics, and just seemingly giving up on their existing line of business to go chasing whatever bong fueled dream Musk is having this quarter.

SpaceX is on a whole new level of bullshit. I think all these guys know how to do is double down. If the hype isn't working, its not stupid and big enough, so you start talking about transhumanism and singularity and other BS in your SEC filings.

New comment by jmuguy in "Three Ways to Get Paid"

jmuguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:47:18 +0000

Same in Firefox on Mac. Links are hard, I guess.

New comment by jmuguy in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

jmuguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:07:59 +0000

I don't think anyone living in LA would claim there's a shortage of actors.

New comment by jmuguy in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

jmuguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:03:56 +0000

This is it entirely. I don't really care if the pessimists or optimists or somewhere in between ends up being correct. What possible reason is there to change the rules around the indexes unless these companies and their backers know that time in the market is going to expose that they're overvalued and they want to force someone else to be holding the bag when that happens.

New comment by jmuguy in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

jmuguy — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:59:11 +0000

Not to mention what anyone who's worked in an office with a shared kitchen can tell you - the smell getting into a car where an indeterminate amount of people have eaten different meals. Like climbing into a food court dumpster.

New comment by jmuguy in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

jmuguy — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:14:46 +0000

Well to elaborate on what I meant - Spotify makes it extremely easy to have access to your music everywhere. Once you get into (or back into) storing MP3s you have to solve that for whatever level of convenience you want. I have Plexamp and things setup myself but it does require some work.

New comment by jmuguy in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

jmuguy — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:56:09 +0000

Another reason to use Bandcamp and just buy music. Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it, make it available to your devices, etc etc. I dunno, Spotify certainly isn't going to get better at this point. Best we can hope is that they die and something better takes their place.

New comment by jmuguy in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

jmuguy — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:36:47 +0000

Boot spammers off your platform, stop them from coming back. Its a moderation issue, the more companies want to pretend like its not their problem - the worse it gets.

New comment by jmuguy in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

jmuguy — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:23:20 +0000

This is the correct assessment. This is not up to the open source community or individual projects to "figure out", any more than its up to me to figure out how not to get spam email.

New comment by jmuguy in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

jmuguy — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:59:24 +0000

Its amazing to me how annoying these problems can be and there's no real one size fits all solution. I have a desktop PC and macbook, and two monitors. I use a KVM and also switch inputs on the monitors themselves.

I tried very unsuccessfully to do something with DDC/CI when the KVM would switch between systems. The idea being when the OS detect the presence of the keyboard/mouse because the KVM had switched to them they'd send a change source command but DDC/CI is such a disaster in terms of support.

We need someone like Framework to make a "monitor for hackers" that actually has robust, well documented, DDC/CI support and I'd be all over it.

New comment by jmuguy in "The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program"

jmuguy — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:25 +0000

Its the account that posted this PR https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pull/6257

New comment by jmuguy in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

jmuguy — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:02:00 +0000

I wonder what Hacktoberfest would look like now if they were still giving out t-shirts to everyone. Probably not enough cotton in the world.

It can't be on individual maintainers to stop this, imo its on Github (and Gitlab) to stop these sort of accounts from even getting to the point of submitting PRs. Its essentially spam.

Look at the user who created the first PR they reference https://github.com/Samuelsills. This is not an account that should be allowed to do anything close to opening a PR against a well known repo.