[tzury]

One day a kid came home breathing heavily, to his father’s surprise face he tells, daddy daddy, I saved a dollar fifty!

How did you do it? ask the father

Instead of taking the bus, I ran after it all the way home.

If you were smarter, you could have save us $22 by running after a taxi!

This old joke came to mind while reading this post.

A tech company spends hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, “for years”, on a piece of software that could have been replaced by a month of coding top? (prior to LLM and all), you sit and write and save the money.

If I was an investor in this company I would have hire a team to look through their entire stack. See, if this JSON thingy alone is half a million a year, their entire cloud is at least $35MM annually.

Perhaps this is not even a bad business idea. One can offer companies to provide drop-in replacement for their costly “micro services that no one dares to touch” and share the cost savings.