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Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?

17 points · 29 comments · ddaniel10

  1. charcircuit · · 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 · · 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 · · 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...

        1. someothherguyy · · focus · HN ↗
          > or maybe they're incapable of understanding

          incapable of understanding speculation?

          1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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