This depends greatly what you want to do. After all, this has incredible latency (compared to the cloud), limited throughput. Zero configuration. Free. You wan

This depends greatly what you want to do. After all, this has incredible latency (compared to the cloud), limited throughput. Zero configuration. Free. You want to train the next imagenet model? Analyse 100Gig database? Probably not the correct tradeoff. You want 20 students to have a perfectly consistent instant-start-up python environment? Definitely the correct tradeoff. You want to try some python methods, write tests, ... Very short latency is going to help you more than throughput is.