roadmap.sh turns “what should I learn?” into a map: detailed, community-vetted flowcharts for frontend, backend, DevOps, security and several AI roles, where every node is a skill with links and the whole graph shows prerequisites and order. It’s the antidote to tutorial roulette.
Where it shines
- Sequence made visible. Prerequisites are explicit, so you stop guessing whether you’re learning things in a working order.
- AI-era paths included. Dedicated roadmaps for AI literacy and AI engineering cover prompting, tooling and evaluation - the meta-skill of this site’s entire audience.
- Trackable. Mark nodes as you go and the map becomes a personal progress board rather than a static poster.
Where it falls short
- Maps are consensus documents: they skew comprehensive, and a minimalist may find more nodes than any single career needs.
- Depth lives in the linked resources, which vary in quality - the map is the index, not the library.
The real cost
Free and open source; roadmaps are readable without an account.
Verdict
Print the one for your target role and use it as a checklist against the AI’s suggestions: agents can teach you any node on demand, but the map decides which nodes matter.
