[hnechochamber]

ah yes, the 1970s where you could sit on your laptop at home, go to a cloud providers website, copy paste your code and launch an app in minutes.

This guy is trying too hard to sound smart.

[diveanon]

I'm probably the same age as this guy, the article definitely made me roll my eyes a few times for this exact reason.

[sergiomattei]

There's another angle we're not discussing too.

Serverless functions are usually free. This is a huge boon for learning: I'm a college student with limited resources, and even spinning up a $5/mo VPS takes some thought and budgeting.

I learned web dev with free web hosts & free VPS services back when I was 13-15. Further democratization will only help newer generations explore & tinker with confidence (scale-wise and tech wise).