A first-principles AI/ML path mapped from the supplied Build Everything book: type the mechanism, run it, break one assumption, and carry the artifact into the next build.
The book foregrounds this arc; the full atomic tier fills in the supporting mechanisms.
The smallest mechanisms: optimize, represent, attend, tokenize, and measure.
Join the mechanisms into autograd, language models, retrieval, and training systems.
Ship products with serving, agents, documents, vision, distribution, and alignment.
Run verifiable reasoning, research a new mechanism, and integrate the full stack.
Close the production gaps: data contracts, evaluation, monitoring, safety, privacy, and controlled rollout.
Practice the interfaces and systems current teams ship: MCP, agents, structured output, efficient inference, compilers, supply chain, and streaming.