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Fnoord01/17/20252 repliesview on HN

I got Amazon Prime. If it has Prime, it is a no-brainer. Free return for 30 days. No S&H costs. Only cost is my time.


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drdaeman01/17/2025

Yea, but LLMs cannot reason - we've all seen them blurt out complete non-sequitur, or end up in death loops of pseudo-reasoning (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734681 has a few examples). I don't think one should trust an LLM to pick Prime products all the time even if that's very explicitly requested - I'm sure it's possible to minimize errors so it'll do the right thing most of the time, but having a guarantee that it won't pick non-Prime item sounds impossible. Same for any other tasks - if there is a way to make a mistake, a mistake will be eventually made.

(Idk if we can trust a human either - brain farts are a thing after all, but at least humans are accountable. Machines are not - at least not at the moment.)

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CryptoBanker01/17/2025

If it fails enough times and you have to return enough items…well, Amazon has been known to ban people for that.

If you have an AWS account created before 2017, am Amazon ban means an AWS ban