I’ve been going through The Odin Project recently. For context, I’m already in tech but not in web dev. My day job is more on the data / ML side of things. I started TOP because I wanted a proper understanding of how full stack web apps actually work instead of just knowing random pieces here and there.
It’s been good so far, probs the most thorough free path I’ve seen for HTML, CSS, JS, React, Git, all of it from the ground up.
But I keep having this thought in the back of my head that’s killing my motivation a bit. Things are moving really fast lately. Especially with tools that can already generate a lot of code for you. I’m here learning all the fundamentals and part of me is wondering if by the time I’m properly comfortable building full stack apps, a lot of this stuff will be handled by tools anyway.
I’m not asking “should I learn to code”. I already code for work. I’m more wondering if going this deep into the traditional path still makes sense if so much of the heavy lifting is getting abstracted away.
The other thing is the market. There are already tons of full stack devs out there. I’m not trying to switch careers and become a junior web dev somewhere. My goal is to build my own MVPs and try the solopreneur route. So now I’m questioning if TOP is even the best use of time for that goal. Would it be smarter to learn just enough fundamentals and then lean on tools like Webflow and other builders to ship faster?
Basically: If your goal in 2026 is to build your own products, not get hired as a web dev, is The Odin Project still worth the time?
Or is there a better path now?
Would love to hear from people who’ve done TOP recently or are building things today.