Comment by nextaccountic

> An LLM can certainly be cheaper than grep, because it’s an approximation, while a grep is deterministic and must examine every byte

You mean a grep over terabytes of data vs a LLM with gigabytes of parameters?

If you have so much data, you can use an index to search. It's unlikely that LLMs are going to be cheaper than properly indexed search DBs (which is what we should be comparing them with)