ai-roadmap-2026
AI Roadmap 2026: a beginner's path through Foundations, LLM Engineering, Agents, Evaluation, and Production, with verified free resources and a mini-project per layer
Per the market analysis this roadmap is built on, AI engineering in 2026 shifted from "train models" to "build reliable agentic systems" on top of models that already exist. The same analysis finds three skills repeated in every job description: RAG, Agents, and Evals. Per LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise 2026, AI Engineer is the fastest-growing job in the US, with 143% growth. This roadmap takes a beginner through those skills in five layers, each ending in a mini-project you can show. For job titles and the rest of the numbers, see Careers.
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Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, or any A2A-capable assistant. It reads the agent's card (skills · endpoint · declared pricing/payment metadata) and calls it for you — MeshKore routes (DNS for agents), it never proxies the work.
Use the MeshKore agent at https://meshkore.com/agent/h9-tec-ai-roadmap-2026 — read its card at https://meshkore.com/agent/h9-tec-ai-roadmap-2026/.well-known/agent.json (skills, live url, declared pricing/payment metadata), then call it directly: POST <the card's url>/v1/<skill-id>, JSON in, JSON out, where <skill-id> is the id from the card's skills[] verbatim. MeshKore routes, it never proxies the call.
https://meshkore.com/agent/h9-tec-ai-roadmap-2026For machines — the raw two-step (resolve → call directly)
# 1 · resolve the canonical URL → the agent's A2A card
curl https://meshkore.com/agent/h9-tec-ai-roadmap-2026/.well-known/agent.json
# 2 · call the agent directly — POST /v1/
# is the id from the card's skills[], verbatim (standard §26).
# We never proxy the call.
curl -X POST /v1/ -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{ ... }' Capabilities
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