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Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?

17 points · 29 comments · ddaniel10

charcircuit · 1790403333 · focus · HN ↗
>The demo uses Claude Haiku rather than newer models like Opus or Fable. This is because I'm assuming that shopping agents of the future won't use newer, more expensive models,
Why are we assuming that shopping agents are going to be using the model that is easiest to fall for prompt injections? Only testing a year old, small model is going to lead to a misleading conclusion.
1. simianwords · 1790403499 · focus · HN ↗
  Author doesn’t understand cost dynamics of the industry - that prices keep falling.
  Author also needs to make a point, and can’t do so if they are using a powerful model.
  1. moomoo11 · 1790403990 · focus · HN ↗
    this is the issue most people don't understand, or maybe they're incapable of understanding.
    next year, astra tier model will be $2/1M or whatever (point is - cheaper) and whatever model is $10/1M will be insane like astra feels today.
    also, in any agentic workflow, you use models of various levels together... not just one model of one level...
    someothherguyy · 1790405053 · focus · HN ↗
    > or maybe they're incapable of understanding
    incapable of understanding speculation?
    simianwords · 1790405192 · focus · HN ↗
    Speculation of what? There are models today that perform better than Haiku at 47x lower cost.
    Excessive skepticism does no good.
    someothherguyy · 1790405453 · focus · HN ↗
    speculation of cost decreases and performance increases in a matching trend year-over-year
    moomoo11 · 1790406032 · focus · HN ↗
    comparable capability has gotten cheaper.
    gpt 6 Luna can be swapped for 5.6 terra or even sol in some cases, and it is much cheaper.
    source: i have a lot of evals, and i have ai find the best model for me for those evals over time so i save $ lol
    [deleted] · 1790405471 · focus · HN ↗
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