Comment by akssassin907

Totally valid for fixed, well-defined tasks — a cron job is cheaper and more reliable there. The LLM earns its keep when the heartbeat involves contextual judgment: not just "is there a task in the queue" but "given everything happening right now, what actually matters?" If the agent needs to reason about priority, relevance, or context before deciding what to surface — that's where the local model pulls its weight. If your agents only do fixed tasks, you're totally right, you don't need it!