agree. the real problem isn't that hard caps are "technically impossible" — it's that the incentive to build them is backwards. a hard cap that stops a runaway process costs the cloud provider money. a "budget alert" that fires after the fact costs the customer money. the 10-minute delay in billing processing is doing a lot of work in that logankilpatrick comment. at $4k/minute burn rates, that's still a $40k exposure window