proofstone

engineering roadmaps · 3 live · 2 in review

Every milestone is a proof.

A growing series of engineering roadmaps for people who already ship software. Measured in artifacts, not keywords.

$ you're done when the artifact exists — not when the reading does

the registry

5 roadmaps · 122 milestones

  1. 01 AI Safety Engineer 33 milestones · 3 flagshiplive

    Evals, red-teaming, guardrails, agent security.

  2. 02 Distributed Systems Engineer 29 milestones · 5 flagshiplive

    Consensus, replication, failure detection.

    labswim-lab — the §4.1 milestone made executable — you implement SWIM, a deterministic suite grades it.

  3. 03 Applied Cryptography 18 milestones · 4 flagshiplive

    Break it in Cryptopals and CryptoHack, then ship it right.

  4. 04 Robotics Software Engineer 20 milestones · 3 flagshipin review

    Port what you already know; respect what is genuinely different. Private until published.

  5. 05 PCB Design 22 milestones · 3 flagshipin review

    The map for the board, not for the firmware on it. Private until published.

    labships with a reference board of its own — designed, fabrication pending.

the maps

each one its own shape

no. 01 ai-safety-engineer

no. 02 distributed-systems-engineer

no. 03 applied-cryptography

what one milestone looks like

taken from a live map, as rendered

M2.1 — Your first real eval

m2.1proof

You're done when your own Inspect Task — dataset, solver, scorer — runs end to end, and you can read the log and say why each sample scored the way it did.

PROVEN ✓ · the artifact exists — nothing here is finished by reading about it

That is the whole format.

how it works

  1. 1

    You're done when … — each node states one finishing condition, in advance.

  2. 2

    An artifact. Meeting it leaves something outside your head — a merged eval, a green test suite, a fabricated board.

  3. 3

    Proof. The artifact is the evidence. Nothing here is finished by reading about it.

companion projects

alongside the series · no milestones

index

TheSeydiCharyyev/build-your-own-agent

An index, not a map: for each of the ten components of the agent stack it points at the best from-scratch tutorial that exists — and ships a runnable one of its own for the three where none did.

The roadmap repositories are the source of truth — this site is the render layer. Contribute by opening a pull request on a roadmap's repo; the site rebuilds itself.