{"slug": "muse", "name": "Muse", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "Meta's sandboxed personal AI agent that carries out tasks such as browsing, shopping and reminders.", "recommenders": 10, "commenters": 19, "warners": 2, "score": 9.153, "rising": 10.0, "first": "2026-09-08", "latest": "2026-10-29", "why": "HN commenters like Muse for running everyday errands such as reserving parking and placing orders, and for recurring monitoring of prices, stock and social feeds.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 10, "neutral": 6, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 5], "listed": true, "loved": ["Errand automation", "Ongoing monitoring"], "caveat": "Privacy", "short_quote": "It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. 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Previously, I used Claude to gather AWS invoices for reimbursement purposes.", "context": "", "use_case": "reserving parking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 796653408, "item_id": 49790838, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790838", "by": "meowtimemania", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders.", "excerpt": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders. This is a big bummer to me, in future I'll find an alternative to amazon OR find an alternative to muse. No matter what I'll continue to use some AI agent and some shopping provider.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent shopping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}, {"text": " and for recurring monitoring of prices, stock and social feeds.", "cites": [{"id": 793920432, "item_id": 49620027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620027", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals", "excerpt": "Only for about a week. Then they saw sense and started rolling it out to the peasants too. I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals and hunting down useful directories to list my projects in.", "context": "", "use_case": "finding pricing deals, directories", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 799287360, "item_id": 49955460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955460", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.", "excerpt": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts. Research here meaning stuff I need a browser for, like the other day I asked Muse to monitor the Apple website every few hours to tell me when iPhones in my area are back in stock. Or another task was to explore an undocumented API for me by issuing curl requests to traverse it. Grok Bot I use for more things, like keeping ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and social monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Meta got right with Muse"}, {"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}]}, {"text": " The most common caveat is privacy around connecting a Meta agent to more of your life,", "cites": [{"id": 802861568, "item_id": 50178848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178848", "by": "_pdp_", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.", "excerpt": "Someone asked me this morning if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do. But to be honest this is all temporary. Muse, Grok, Dots will have users for the foreseeable future but there will be viable options for self-hosting too. I am already doing it https://github.com/pdparchitect/noodle/ The Hub powers the entire family inference needs through a single device - 4 users - 8 device about 50 agents - mixture of loca", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}, {"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}]}, {"text": " and one user says its attempts succeed only about half the time.", "cites": [{"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Errand automation", "summary": "Users have it reserve parking, place Amazon orders, file 311 reports and claim free games.", "quotes": [{"id": 796663312, "item_id": 49791457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791457", "by": "fadhilkurnia", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF.", "excerpt": "I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF. Previously, I used Claude to gather AWS invoices for reimbursement purposes.", "context": "", "use_case": "reserving parking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 796653408, "item_id": 49790838, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790838", "by": "meowtimemania", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders.", "excerpt": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders. This is a big bummer to me, in future I'll find an alternative to amazon OR find an alternative to muse. No matter what I'll continue to use some AI agent and some shopping provider.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent shopping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}, {"label": "Ongoing monitoring", "summary": "It checks sites on a schedule for restocks, glitched pricing deals and topic digests.", "quotes": [{"id": 799287360, "item_id": 49955460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955460", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.", "excerpt": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts. Research here meaning stuff I need a browser for, like the other day I asked Muse to monitor the Apple website every few hours to tell me when iPhones in my area are back in stock. Or another task was to explore an undocumented API for me by issuing curl requests to traverse it. Grok Bot I use for more things, like keeping ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and social monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Meta got right with Muse"}, {"id": 793920432, "item_id": 49620027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620027", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals", "excerpt": "Only for about a week. Then they saw sense and started rolling it out to the peasants too. I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals and hunting down useful directories to list my projects in.", "context": "", "use_case": "finding pricing deals, directories", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}]}, {"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Some users say it exceeded expectations and became something they use every day.", "quotes": [{"id": 801021056, "item_id": 50063816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063816", "by": "jiscariot", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver", "excerpt": "I've been running OpenClaw for a year--its been fine, but I really wanted an enterprise experience and to spend less time troubleshooting my agent. Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver and I shutdown OpenClaw last week. I get that some are adverse to Meta or want to run local. I don't care who wins the personal agent space, so long as it's not Apple. Buying Siri an", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI agent", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Muse Wonder"}, {"id": 796669744, "item_id": 49791859, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791859", "by": "pfeifemc", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked.", "excerpt": "Just in the last three hours, Muse helped me make progress on my go-to-market plan, drafted me a script for my demo video, and went and listed 50 high value creators in my target market that i can go interact with and ask for product feedback. It could even DM them for me if I wanted to. It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked. I sti", "context": "building a product", "use_case": "go-to-market planning and outreach", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 804657216, "item_id": 50291076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291076", "by": "vorticalbox", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\".", "excerpt": "not sure if you will see this but i see what you mean. i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\". its not the fastest on my m4.", "context": "runs on an M4", "use_case": "local model on M4", "switched_from": "", "story": "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"}]}, {"label": "Proactive reminders", "summary": "It can decide on its own to raise things to your attention and send daily summaries.", "quotes": [{"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}, {"id": 799270656, "item_id": 49954416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954416", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders", "excerpt": "I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders - just to play with it. I also have two daily tasks for local events and things to do and also a tech summary of new tech news.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily tasks and news summaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models"}]}, {"label": "Polished experience", "summary": "Commenters credit it with a more finished, less troubleshooting-heavy setup than alternatives.", "quotes": [{"id": 801021056, "item_id": 50063816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063816", "by": "jiscariot", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver", "excerpt": "I've been running OpenClaw for a year--its been fine, but I really wanted an enterprise experience and to spend less time troubleshooting my agent. Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver and I shutdown OpenClaw last week. I get that some are adverse to Meta or want to run local. I don't care who wins the personal agent space, so long as it's not Apple. Buying Siri an", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI agent", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Muse Wonder"}, {"id": 802998241, "item_id": 50187390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187390", "by": "flakiness", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation", "excerpt": "I worry how buggy their app is. I love their model but Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation. Hope this turn out to be false alarm.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}, {"label": "Research and scraping", "summary": "It can explore undocumented APIs and reach Meta sites that are behind login walls.", "quotes": [{"id": 799287360, "item_id": 49955460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955460", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.", "excerpt": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts. Research here meaning stuff I need a browser for, like the other day I asked Muse to monitor the Apple website every few hours to tell me when iPhones in my area are back in stock. Or another task was to explore an undocumented API for me by issuing curl requests to traverse it. Grok Bot I use for more things, like keeping ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and social monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Meta got right with Muse"}, {"id": 798887360, "item_id": 49930460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930460", "by": "wraptile", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls", "excerpt": "Every time a new tool launches there's a good window where it can act as a scraping proxy. Back in the 2010s I used Google Translate for years to scrape hard targets like LinkedIn but these windows are much shorter these days as scraping is so much bigger. One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls and restricting discovery/search entirely.", "context": "", "use_case": "web scraping proxy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Privacy", "summary": "Some users consider it a privacy risk because it gives Meta access to more personal data.", "quotes": [{"id": 802861568, "item_id": 50178848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178848", "by": "_pdp_", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.", "excerpt": "Someone asked me this morning if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do. But to be honest this is all temporary. Muse, Grok, Dots will have users for the foreseeable future but there will be viable options for self-hosting too. I am already doing it https://github.com/pdparchitect/noodle/ The Hub powers the entire family inference needs through a single device - 4 users - 8 device about 50 agents - mixture of loca", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}, {"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}, {"id": 801021056, "item_id": 50063816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063816", "by": "jiscariot", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver", "excerpt": "I've been running OpenClaw for a year--its been fine, but I really wanted an enterprise experience and to spend less time troubleshooting my agent. Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver and I shutdown OpenClaw last week. I get that some are adverse to Meta or want to run local. I don't care who wins the personal agent space, so long as it's not Apple. Buying Siri an", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI agent", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Muse Wonder"}]}, {"label": "Unreliable results", "summary": "One user says its attempts at tasks succeed only about half the time.", "quotes": [{"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}]}, {"label": "Sponsored shopping", "summary": "One commenter worries it will steer shopping carts toward sponsored products.", "quotes": [{"id": 793876096, "item_id": 49617256, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617256", "by": "iAMkenough", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.", "excerpt": "Or in Muse\u2019s case, helping your child pick out school supplies for their third grade year. Meta\u2019s ideal parent is too busy to spend time with their kids, so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}]}, {"label": "Not for everyone", "summary": "One user would not recommend it to non-technical friends.", "quotes": [{"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}]}, {"label": "Speed", "summary": "One user notes it is not the fastest on an M4.", "quotes": [{"id": 804657216, "item_id": 50291076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291076", "by": "vorticalbox", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\".", "excerpt": "not sure if you will see this but i see what you mean. i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\". its not the fastest on my m4.", "context": "runs on an M4", "use_case": "local model on M4", "switched_from": "", "story": "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"}]}], "who": [{"by": "vorticalbox", "context": "runs on an M4", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291076", "date": "2026-10-29"}, {"by": "pfeifemc", "context": "building a product", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791859", "date": "2026-09-21"}], "tags": ["for personal errands", "for price and stock alerts", "for social media digests", "for technical users"], "use_cases": ["reading x digests", "local model on m4", "always-on agent, reminders", "configuring *arr stack", "personal ai agent", "code analysis"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "openclaw", "name": "OpenClaw", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "grok", "name": "Grok", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789982", "title": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946526", "title": "What Meta got right with Muse", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615537", "title": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292727", "title": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238088", "title": "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186037", "title": "Claude Duet", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 5, "neutral": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 5, "warn": 1, "compare": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804741792, "item_id": 50296362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296362", "by": "dovin", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account", "excerpt": "I use Muse to read X for me with a burner account, since I want to follow certain topics but don't want to use X. It posts digests a couple times a week to a discord channel I gave it access to. It's fine and I think there are plenty of ways of using it that give essentially nothing to Meta in the way of data. Still I wouldn't recommend it to any of my non-technical friends, since I think the natural progression with", "context": "", "use_case": "reading X digests", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful"}, {"id": 804657216, "item_id": 50291076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291076", "by": "vorticalbox", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\".", "excerpt": "not sure if you will see this but i see what you mean. i have been using it the last few days there is just something about thats just \"nice\". its not the fastest on my m4.", "context": "runs on an M4", "use_case": "local model on M4", "switched_from": "", "story": "IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem"}, {"id": 803026416, "item_id": 50189151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189151", "by": "dgunay", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service", "excerpt": "I use Muse. So far the biggest value to me is 1) being a more \"squishy\" reminder service than a typical task tracker, because it can at its own discretion raise stuff to my attention and 2) attempting things that I normally wouldn't have the energy to do on my own. It doesn't always succeed, but a 50/50 chance of it even getting done is still an improvement in my book. Things like 311-ing small problems I see on walk", "context": "", "use_case": "always-on agent, reminders", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}, {"id": 802998241, "item_id": 50187390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187390", "by": "flakiness", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation", "excerpt": "I worry how buggy their app is. I love their model but Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation. Hope this turn out to be false alarm.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Duet"}, {"id": 802861568, "item_id": 50178848, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50178848", "by": "_pdp_", "date": "2026-10-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do.", "excerpt": "Someone asked me this morning if I consider Muse a privacy risk. Lol. I do. But to be honest this is all temporary. Muse, Grok, Dots will have users for the foreseeable future but there will be viable options for self-hosting too. I am already doing it https://github.com/pdparchitect/noodle/ The Hub powers the entire family inference needs through a single device - 4 users - 8 device about 50 agents - mixture of loca", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"}, {"id": 801822080, "item_id": 50113880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113880", "by": "navanchauhan", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I usually just have Muse or another AI agent on my box do those things for me.", "excerpt": "I used to think so too, but now I usually just have Muse or another AI agent on my box do those things for me. I should maybe create a slimmed down API first *arr stack equivalent then hmm", "context": "", "use_case": "configuring *arr stack", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 801021056, "item_id": 50063816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063816", "by": "jiscariot", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver", "excerpt": "I've been running OpenClaw for a year--its been fine, but I really wanted an enterprise experience and to spend less time troubleshooting my agent. Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does. It has become my daily driver and I shutdown OpenClaw last week. I get that some are adverse to Meta or want to run local. I don't care who wins the personal agent space, so long as it's not Apple. Buying Siri an", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI agent", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Muse Wonder"}, {"id": 799300128, "item_id": 49956258, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956258", "by": "ternaryoperator", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use muse.ai for code analysis and so far, I find it excellent.", "excerpt": "I use muse.ai for code analysis and so far, I find it excellent. I\u2019m hoping JetBrains will make it accessible through Junie.", "context": "", "use_case": "code analysis", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Meta got right with Muse"}, {"id": 799287360, "item_id": 49955460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955460", "by": "artdigital", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts.", "excerpt": "Muse I use for general research and monitoring my Ig/Facebook/Threads conversations and posts. Research here meaning stuff I need a browser for, like the other day I asked Muse to monitor the Apple website every few hours to tell me when iPhones in my area are back in stock. Or another task was to explore an undocumented API for me by issuing curl requests to traverse it. Grok Bot I use for more things, like keeping ", "context": "", "use_case": "research and social monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Meta got right with Muse"}, {"id": 799270656, "item_id": 49954416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954416", "by": "mark_l_watson", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders", "excerpt": "I use Muse and only give it access to my Apple Reminders - just to play with it. I also have two daily tasks for local events and things to do and also a tech summary of new tech news.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily tasks and news summaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models"}, {"id": 798887360, "item_id": 49930460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930460", "by": "wraptile", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls", "excerpt": "Every time a new tool launches there's a good window where it can act as a scraping proxy. Back in the 2010s I used Google Translate for years to scrape hard targets like LinkedIn but these windows are much shorter these days as scraping is so much bigger. One thing with Muse though is that you can scrape Meta's own sites which are currently all going under login walls and restricting discovery/search entirely.", "context": "", "use_case": "web scraping proxy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping"}, {"id": 798166993, "item_id": 49885437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885437", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I had Muse agent create a skill that can do videos. Worked pretty well.", "excerpt": "This is super cool. Not affiliated but trymyrepo.com is very neat as well. Seems similar space. Also I had Muse agent create a skill that can do videos. Worked pretty well. Things are getting wild. Lastly, this might fun to those who like this space: (my thing) https://github.com/jgbrwn/mst3k-anything", "context": "", "use_case": "creating a video skill", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HN.watch \u2013 Videos of all Hacker News posts"}, {"id": 797379456, "item_id": 49836216, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836216", "by": "vanuatu", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Muse itself is a sandboxed agent that will magically do things for you", "excerpt": "1. its cute and fun and you can check out ur friends' muse 2. Muse itself is a sandboxed agent that will magically do things for you", "context": "", "use_case": "AI assistant agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain"}, {"id": 796870960, "item_id": 49804435, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804435", "by": "gavinray", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Didn't know Muse could do this, will have to give it a try.", "excerpt": "> Ten minutes earlier, the A.I. agent had called my dental insurer, given them my member I.D., answered a security question and waited on hold before transferring me to the representative I have been willing to pay a lot of money for a mobile AI tool that can make outbound calls for me. I dread making medical appointments or other reservations. Didn't know Muse could do this, will have to give it a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "outbound calls and reservations", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Gave My Life over to Meta's A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away"}, {"id": 796669744, "item_id": 49791859, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791859", "by": "pfeifemc", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked.", "excerpt": "Just in the last three hours, Muse helped me make progress on my go-to-market plan, drafted me a script for my demo video, and went and listed 50 high value creators in my target market that i can go interact with and ask for product feedback. It could even DM them for me if I wanted to. It's the first time a product like this has actually shocked me... it closes the gap between decision and action. I'm hooked. I sti", "context": "building a product", "use_case": "go-to-market planning and outreach", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 796663312, "item_id": 49791457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791457", "by": "fadhilkurnia", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF.", "excerpt": "I just used it today to find and reserve a parking spot in SF. Previously, I used Claude to gather AWS invoices for reimbursement purposes.", "context": "", "use_case": "reserving parking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 796653408, "item_id": 49790838, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790838", "by": "meowtimemania", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders.", "excerpt": "I'm really enjoying muse+have used it to make some amazon orders. This is a big bummer to me, in future I'll find an alternative to amazon OR find an alternative to muse. No matter what I'll continue to use some AI agent and some shopping provider.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent shopping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon blocks Meta\u2019s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"}, {"id": 795552324, "item_id": 49722020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722020", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects", "excerpt": "I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me. (and I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects)", "context": "", "use_case": "other projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"}, {"id": 793920432, "item_id": 49620027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620027", "by": "qingcharles", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals", "excerpt": "Only for about a week. Then they saw sense and started rolling it out to the peasants too. I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals and hunting down useful directories to list my projects in.", "context": "", "use_case": "finding pricing deals, directories", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 793876096, "item_id": 49617256, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617256", "by": "iAMkenough", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.", "excerpt": "Or in Muse\u2019s case, helping your child pick out school supplies for their third grade year. Meta\u2019s ideal parent is too busy to spend time with their kids, so they let the AI pick sponsored garbage for their cart and check out with their Link payment details.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}]}