Why it matters
The iteration cycle before Flash: commit, push, build a Docker image, pull it from the registry, load it onto a server, allocate a GPU, then find out if it works. Audrey Hsu demos what replacing that with a single decorator looks like — add `@flash.endpoint` to an async Python function and it deploys to GPU cloud from
My takeaway: GPU Cloud Deployment Without Leaving Your IDE — Audry Hsu, RunPod is an enterprise-adoption signal. The practical read is to watch how deployment scale, data boundaries, operational ownership, and platform controls change as AI moves out of experiments.