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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.
ya you could just have a cron job that buys NFT on 6am every day, at least it would actually tries to buy them 6am consistently.
With a cron job from well before 2018. We've had Linux since the mid '90s, and some people had unixes at home before that
Yeah but i dont know when ec2 became a thing