It's a "lie" in that of course there's a server, what else would your code run on? But we "lie" all the time by omission or shorthand or euphemism. "Cloud" comp

It's a "lie" in that of course there's a server, what else would your code run on? But we "lie" all the time by omission or shorthand or euphemism. "Cloud" computing doesn't really occur in the stratosphere, and "serverless" still runs on servers in the "cloud", and by "server" I don't mean waitstaff ;-) I agree that it's a dumb name that doesn't really say what it means and "ephemeral" might be better, but "serverless" is better than "clouds-you-rent-by-the-second".