Follow the broad path for orientation. Follow the systems path until you can predict, measure, and defend a deployment decision. Progress by evidence of understanding, not a fixed number of weeks.
Recognize the major ideas, explain their mechanism in ordinary language, and know where to go deeper. Read the mental picture, explore the selected part of a reference, then answer the check in your own words.
7 modules · 32 study maps
Finish line: You can explain how search, learning, perception, generation, and action fit together without deriving every equation.
Follow a request from the gateway to GPU memory and back. Predict a bottleneck, study the mechanism, run an experiment, and defend the tradeoff. Begin after you can explain tokens, attention, and the generation loop.
10 modules · 53 study maps
Finish line: You can size, benchmark, optimize, deploy, and troubleshoot a serving system against explicit quality, latency, reliability, and cost targets.