Landmark Guides
Long-arc reading paths for understanding AI fast
Daily paper picks tell you what matters now. Landmark guides tell you which papers built a field over time, why those papers mattered, and where a newcomer should start without reading everything.
Available guides
Start with the area that matches how you learn or what you plan to build.
Landmark Guide
12 Papers That Built Modern LLMs
A beginner-friendly map of the papers that shaped transformers, scaling, alignment, and the open-source LLM era.
Landmark Guide
12 Papers That Shaped Modern AI Agents
A beginner-friendly map of the ideas behind tool use, planning, memory, multi-agent workflows, and software agents.
Landmark Guide
12 Papers That Shaped Modern RAG
A beginner-friendly map of the ideas behind dense retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, self-correction, and structured retrieval.
Landmark Guide
12 Papers That Shaped Modern Computer Use Agents
A beginner-friendly map of the papers behind web agents, GUI grounding, smartphone control, and full computer-use benchmarks.
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12 Papers That Shaped Modern AI Coding Agents
A beginner-friendly map of code LLMs, repo grounding, software-engineering benchmarks, and modern SWE agents.
1. Start small
Each guide has a quick-start section so you can get the main shape of a field without committing to the full timeline.
2. Follow a path
Pick the beginner, builder, or researcher path instead of reading every paper in exactly the same order.
3. Return to the feed
Use the daily site after the guide. The combination is what turns background knowledge into practical judgment.