I sometimes reminisce about the 2010-2020 deep learning and reinforcement learning etc era, as a student I did some projects in that domain back then and it fel

I sometimes reminisce about the 2010-2020 deep learning and reinforcement learning etc era, as a student I did some projects in that domain back then and it felt very approachable and relatively easy to get into it compared to how I (most likely subjectively) see it today as a developer (in a different field). I remember I doing a project in my second bachelor semester, where I generated random 64x64 images of a simple maze with a start and finish and then I tried to train a RNN algorithm that could navigate unseen mazes. There are so many better ways and algorithms to do it, but I learned a lot of cool tech anyway with this approach.