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> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script.

Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Compaq. /s

Running obsolete software will be cheaper, but the value provided by the newer technology will make the difference insignificant.

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I don't think so, because that carried efficiency scales.

Why do 50,000 tasks with an LLM when I can do 64,467,235 without an LLM that the LLM created for the same cost on probably far lower cost hardware?

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