> As developers we should be striving for a) open sourcing machine learning so that everyone can contribute to the good it can do and b) that we democratise the

> As developers we should be striving for a) open sourcing machine learning so that everyone can contribute to the good it can do and b) that we democratise the result of those efforts so that everyone can benefit from it for their own projects. Why? Oh I know. You are a wild-eyed optimist who would have cheered unfettered globalization in late 90's because "the whole can benefit from it". You know what - as developers, we should care about maintaining scarcity of developers around the world so that we can continue being in demand and continue having great salaries. I would rather be a part of AMA (cartel which limits supply of Doctors in the USA and erects legal/regulatory barriers for competitors, thereby ensuring high standard of life for Doctors) than being a manufacturing engineer whose job was lost (or threatened) first by globalization and now by automation. You know who benefits from "democratization of results of our efforts" or when "everyone can contribute to the good machine learning" (or other software engineering in general)? VCs and mega-rich folks, whose capital now doesn't have to share productivity gains with labor because labor is abundantly available.