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Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery

mguerville — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:21:38 +0000

I'm curious if the HN community has a good resources (blogs, podcasts, other content) on practical uses of SOTA AI to improve professional services (e.g. outsourced finance, etc.)

I've read a fair amount of what people think should be done (theory) but haven't found a ton of content from people who actually have done it (practice)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345255

Points: 5

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New comment by mguerville in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

mguerville — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:42:14 +0000

As someone who makes a living in PowerPoint but loves tech and FOSS, congrats. I'm not sure I fully follow how collaborating works, you may want to write an explainer that assumes nearly zero engineering knowledge. Looking forward to the docx and xlsx version, I'll follow on gh to stay up to date

New comment by mguerville in "Apple overhauls RAW photo processing with iOS 27, showcases impressive results"

mguerville — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:07:14 +0000

The examples shared are impressive but based on extremely high ISO and looking at noise on a 10x cropped area of worst case scenarios. To most of us it won't make a noticeable difference on all but a small handful of images per year, if that.

New comment by mguerville in "Who are the fire-tamers?"

mguerville — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:39:11 +0000

My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I guess no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.

New comment by mguerville in "Writing your own static website generator"

mguerville — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:35:48 +0000

I'm a non engineer, never-coder but fairly technical guy and about a year ago I had Lovable.dev write me a static site generator because I understood the value of it to host cheaply/freely and thought it'd be a good exercise. It takes .md files with a basic YAML frontmatter and publishes just the blog part (each .md file is blog post) of the site, but it was a good learning process and I think most people don't understand how simple the web can be when the goal is to publish content efficiently.

New comment by mguerville in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

mguerville — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:53:56 +0000

Business/Office productivity tools can be productive at that rate. Core systems like ERP or arguably CRM can't, but MS Teams is probably already that low, Figma, Canva and several others could absolutely afford to be one nine before it affects their churn materially. I suspect OpenAI and Anthropic make most of their profit on business use cases rather than dev use cases (likely higher revenue but less profit) so this may be what sets the standard of uptime.

New comment by mguerville in "Car Seats as Contraception"

mguerville — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:14:07 +0000

Car seats have also deterred me from a few trips, short and long. They're a hassle to get an uber and store at destination (say a sporting event), and they are a nightmare to lug around airports and add to the effective travel time by if you end up checking them in as luggage (and then waiting for them at the carousel).

New comment by mguerville in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

mguerville — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:57:40 +0000

And in the type of work where AI arguably yields productivity gains the workers have high agency and may pay for their own tooling without telling their employers. Case in point, me, I have access to CoPilot via my employer but don't use it because I prefer my self-paid ChatGPT subscription. If Ai-lift in productivity is measured on the condition that I use Copilot then the resulting metric misses my AI usage entirely and my productivity improvement are not attributed to their real cause.

New comment by mguerville in "We tracked 605 Show HN posts for 63 days"

mguerville — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:16:15 +0000

Agreed, the content implied by the title but not delivered would be substantially more interesting, especially if compared to Product Hunt, or other places fraught with launch announcement of small solo dev projects.

New comment by mguerville in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mguerville — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:11:54 +0000

Http://www.m-guerville.com

New comment by mguerville in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

mguerville — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:50:36 +0000

AI gives you the average of all expected answers (steered a bit to one side or another via prompt), I think people come to HN to hear decidely non-average viewpoints. So from that standpoint I'd say yes forbidding AI answer would go a long way towards preserving the differentiation of HN vs Reddit and other more mainstrean (i.e. average) communities

New comment by mguerville in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

mguerville — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:59:00 +0000

I’m working to convert a pure services coaching business into a coaching augmented by technology. I want to keep the human coaches front and center but simplify operations and have tech/AI fill in where it helps both the clients and the coaches.

New comment by mguerville in "Claude for Excel"

mguerville — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:10:30 +0000

Excel work of people who make a living because of their excel skills (Bankers, VCs, Finance pros) is truly on the spectrum of basic coding. Excel use by others (Strategy, HR, etc.) is more like crude UI to manipulate small datasets (filter, sort, add, share and collaborate). Source: have lived both lives.

New comment by mguerville in "Look, Another AI Browser"

mguerville — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:32:48 +0000

Sales (CRMs are all in browser now), Marketing (entire stack, include some creative (Canva) is in browser now), Strategy is half in powerpoint/xls (creating content) and half in browser (researching info), HR (Workday, LinkedIn, etc.), product (Figma, Miro, Aha!, Linear), support (Asana/Jira) probably spend at least 50% of their working time in browser. Also the time people are at their desk but not working, is usually in browser (check news, stocks, blogs, personal email, etc.)

New comment by mguerville in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

mguerville — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:41:53 +0000

Very true, and also users aren't naive, it just signals that the greed factor is now winning over the pride into the product and it's the end of the product line as a truly DIY platform. I expect they'll wait a few months then find another way to achieve the same goal, like gating some features to NASes with official HDD only, or throttling 3rd party I/O

New comment by mguerville in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

mguerville — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:42:54 +0000

I use Inoreader and it removes duplicates (useful for rss feeds of google alerts), and can filter feeds so your feed is a tad less raw

New comment by mguerville in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

mguerville — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:42:28 +0000

I only hit that problem in voice mode, it'll just stop halfway and restart. It's a jarring reminder of its lack of "real" intelligence

New comment by mguerville in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

mguerville — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:19:59 +0000

Kirk spread misinformation and voiced opinions that were contributing to making the lives of several demographic groups more unsafe, repeatedly, for years, to a massive audience.

Violence isn't the answer and I wish yesterday's event didn't happen, but his actions were a far cry from just "saying something someone might not like"

The first amendment is important, but it has boundaries, and Kirk made a living from being very close (arguably sometimes over) these boundaries. I think his message, which I wholeheartedly disagree with, will be carried on by others, as is their right. But I hope they do it in ways that are more firmly within the healthy boundaries of the first amendment. And if they don't, it should be the courts that decides if they should be penalized, not a lone armed civilian.

New comment by mguerville in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

mguerville — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:43:53 +0000

and these $12-24k are net dollars so the parents needs more like $20-40k of gross income to pay for it, but now they can have a small job or small business that nets them even as low as $15k and still come out ahead

New comment by mguerville in "Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows"

mguerville — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:39:25 +0000

Bolt.new has a nice IDE and Roo.code is literally just a VS Code Plugin