Is “DeepSeek” going to be the new trendy way to say to not be wasteful? I don’t think DS is a good example here. Mostly because it’s a trendy thing, and the company still has $1B in capex spend to get there.
Firecracker has changed the nature of “VMs” into something cheap and easy to spin up and throw away while maintaining isolation. There’s no reason not to use it (besides complexity, I guess).
Besides, the entire rest of this is a python notebook. With headless browsers. Using LLMs. This is entirely setting silicon on fire. The overhead from a VM the least of the compute efficiency problems. Just hit a quick cloud API and run your python or browser automation in isolation and move on.
Firecracker has changed the nature of “VMs” into something cheap and easy to spin up and throw away while maintaining isolation. There’s no reason not to use it (besides complexity, I guess).
Besides, the entire rest of this is a python notebook. With headless browsers. Using LLMs. This is entirely setting silicon on fire. The overhead from a VM the least of the compute efficiency problems. Just hit a quick cloud API and run your python or browser automation in isolation and move on.