The Roadmap
The complete path to owning every layer of large language model engineering — from the mathematics underneath to writing original research and building models from scratch.
The language the entire architecture is written in
The principles that predate deep learning but govern everything inside it
The engine
The heart of modern AI
The domain where transformers changed everything
Where the math meets silicon
Where everything converges
The frontier
The Destination
Someone who can derive the mathematics, implement the architecture, train the model, optimize the infrastructure, read the frontier research, identify what's missing, run the experiments, and write the paper. Not a user of AI — a builder and researcher who understands every layer from floating point arithmetic to alignment theory.
Built in the pre-AGI era