Hugging Face founder reflects on a wild decade: 'code as a subset of ML' came true
nikiparmar09 · x · 2026-09-03
ThomWolf shares reflections as Hugging Face marks a milestone, recalling how the tiny 2016 underdog team never anticipated the field's growth or their impact. He cites Julien Simon's old joke that "code will be a subset of ML" — which turned out to be true.
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