A 2015 ML veteran reflects on how the field changed and where it goes next
j_foerst · x · 2026-07-21
A practitioner who entered machine learning in 2015 shares a first-person account of how the field changed dramatically over the years.
The piece asks bigger questions: where the field stands today, how it got here, where innovations come from, and how the next phase of progress should happen.
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