alt Hacker Newsthis is not the way to do devops, we have IaC, reviews, and promotion for a reason
it's clear infra level decisions are well beyond what LLMs / agents are capable of today, this is area is too high risk, devops is slow to adopt new tooling because of its role and nature
wow, you downvoted me.
this is still devops. we use cloud-init to setup the vm.
i run the underlying hardware infrastructure and we've automated the provisioning such that we have an api that can start/stop compute at will. even bare metal.
the point of this is that the current $/token model is awful, especially if you're using a lot of tokens. it should be $/minute. pay for what you use.