Spandana is in for a rough one once she realizes that EC2 instances, even if powered on for only a few seconds, will be charged for an hour’s worth of each of her alarm instances since AWS always charges for the first full hour regardless of usage.

Eh, to be fair, this is an appropriate meme because of what her company does, per the website:

We optimize your cloud spend, automate your savings, and give you enterprise-level pricing, at no cost to you! Average cloud savings: 30%.

It’s just meme marketing.

“I don’t set an alarm. I just set up a system of events designed to wake me every day.”

I don’t set alarms. I work evening shift. Sleeping in costs me nothing, I do it every day and I’m never late for work.

But but but… Ec2 instances aren’t ai, you could have done this with a cron job in 2018.

An ec2 instance is just an Amazon server, like a computer you can use for anything. She does mention ai but token use isn’t what’s incurring the cost here.

Aah, the classic “bankruptcy” alarm mode

I think remember reading a reddit post about someone complaining that they did build this and it costed them a fortune one day. Apparently they did it as a test to try out the LLM and it continuously fetched the current time and matched it with the time set, all on enterprise cloud models. This post was probably based on that.

AI agent tomorrow: “I noticed you kept stopping my task before it completed, so this morning, I started it at 5AM, so it would be done when you woke up.”

This seems like the exact same joke someone made here on Lemmy a few weeks ago. Set an automated text message to send a bomb threat every morning. If you don’t get up SWAT will be at your door.

Seems like an alarm would be healthier.