I think Cloudflare has a pretty amazing product with Workers. It has rekindled the same ease of development and deployment Rails had with Heroku a decade ago. There are several frameworks (Astro, Hono, etc) that make it easy to write small, simple applications in Typescript and run them on Cloudflare with a single command. It helps that their free tier has a very high ceiling.
There are some gaps in the platform, no geospatial functionality on D1 for example, and that’s okay. I can’t migrate everything to Cloudflare and be absolved for sysadmin responsibilities. I do hope that Cloudflare gives me a reason to really consider that possibility one day. I would thoroughly enjoy never having to manage servers and all the network topology that comes along with it ever again.
I’m fairly confident that I will rarely write code only by hand anymore. While the latest frontier models still lack good judgement when it comes to accomplishing a task, they are more detail oriented and persistent than I will ever be.
At the same time I’m not sure I’m comfortable letting an AI agent work completely autonomously with access to GitHub to create, review, and merge PRs.
I like to see what the agent is doing, and retaining push/deploy permissions for myself.
I’m sure even this safeguard will fall by the wayside as frontier models become more capable with decision making and judgement.