Ask HN: Do you embrace AI in your life and business?
A small company is grappling with the impact of AI on their consulting and software development services. They note that clients are increasingly seeking AI solutions, even if traditional methods may be more efficient. The founders are considering how to adapt their offerings to remain competitive in a market that is heavily leaning towards AI integration.
- ▪The company primarily focuses on consulting and software development.
- ▪Clients are increasingly interested in AI solutions for their problems.
- ▪The founders are debating the necessity of branding their services with AI to stay competitive.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266152 |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 12:43:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T12:52:36.700Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T12:52:36.700Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ENNm6AqKeWQZ · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
We run a small company. From consulting to software dev (well, mostly both things happen: consult, then develop). While software dev is impacted by AI coding, there is more going on on our client's side that is also impacted by AI = everyone wants AI solutions. If a client has a problem where they need to start at point A and end up at point B, and we see that the most efficient approach is some conventional integration, middleware, etc., proposing that doesn't excite the client.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.