Mastodon user criticizes the expansion as loss of user agency
2Sep 21 12:27 PM · 2d ago · 2 posts · 1 source · development 2 of 3
A Mastodon user responded to the announcement with a broader critical comment about Cloudflare's platform growth, framing it as part of an unsustainable trend rather than commenting on the Python feature specifically.
blog.cloudflare.com
“I'm too tired for even the "What can possibly go wrong?" of it all. Every day they build new ways to take your agency from you. Every day they add to the house of cards that can only end one way.”
I'm too tired for even the "What can possibly go wrong?" of it all. Every day they build new ways to take your agency from you. Every day they add to the house of cards that can only end one way. https:// blog.cloudflare.com/python-wor kers-ga/
This is the tech at Cloudflare of course, but I swear that my first interpretation of the title was "We have replaced all our python coders with AI and they (the coders) are out and generally available" :-)
How do these perform for cold-starts? I remember one of the disadvantages of using web assembly for Workers was more spin-up time, but maybe they figured out a way around that.
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