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outworlder • today at 3:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Yeap. Most likely Muse, Grok Bot and things like that.

Honestly, US banks and credit unions should get their heads out of their asses and learn from it. There's a _reason_ people connect banks to YNAB, Monarch Money and stuff like that, and a reason why they might want an AI agent. They need the info. They may also need to make automated transactions, something companies have access to, but the ordinary person does not.

My landlord wants Zelle. I cannot schedule payments on my credit union. It's not like I can update the app since it lives inside their systems. So I have to login monthly. I debated getting another bank account and giving it to Muse just for that purpose.

Banks in the US are a couple of decades behind, say, Brazilian banks. Instant transfers to another bank were a thing since the early 2000s. And for years now you can do it from anyone to anyone, no third party app required. To the dismay of Visa and Mastercard.


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tredre3 • today at 5:03 PM

> I debated getting another bank account and giving it to Muse just for that purpose.

The point of getting the second bank account is to reduce the blast radius if the agent goes haywire, I suppose?

But then you'll have to manually top up that account every now and then, how does it solve your initial problem?

jmtulloss • today at 5:06 PM

This is why I moved to Mercury. It’s good tech.

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