Sep 3, 2026
The AI Research Roadmap: From Software Developer to AI Researcher, One Step at a Time
A strict, opinionated, resource-by-resource roadmap for engineers who want to move from software development into AI research — the four rules that keep it from becoming tutorial hell, the three phases from ML Engineer to Researcher, and the open repository where every lesson lives. This is the exact path I am walking right now.
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