  In this contribution to the special issue "Celebrating 30 years of Steven
Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians," we emphasize the
important role chiral effective field theory has played in leading nuclear
physics into a precision era. To this end, we share our perspective on a few of
the recent advances made in ab initio calculations of nuclear structure and
nuclear matter observables, as well as Bayesian uncertainty quantification of
effective field theory truncation errors.
