Learning via the Theory Build Write Loop

Over the past month I’ve been doing a crash course on machine learning as I come up to speed on AI progress. In 2025 I had a child, and between the pregnancy leading up to it, a fun project at my day job, and all the dirty diapers since I have been paying a lot less attention to the field than is warranted. Claude Opus 4.5 burst this bubble - it’s now agentic enough to be a Software Engineer I or…