{"slug": "starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain", "title": "\"Starting My AI/ML Journey in Public — and Backpropagation Already Broke My Brain\"", "summary": "Chakradhar, a third-year BTech student, publicly documents his struggle to learn backpropagation as part of his journey to become an AI/ML engineer. He admits that the concept has 'broken his brain' and aims to share the messy reality of learning, contrasting with polished tutorials.", "body_md": "Hi, I'm Chakradhar— A 3rd year BTech student trying to become AI/ML engineer right from the 1st year i had wasted all my time, but yeah whatever it is \"I STARTED\" so far i had learned some topics .\n\nBut one confusing topic at a time.\n\nThis isn't going to be a \"I learned Backpropagation and now I'm an expert\" post. It's the opposite. I've spent the last few weeks going through neural networks, activation functions, loss functions, and now backpropagation — and backprop is the first thing that's genuinely broken my brain.\n\nI'm not writing this because I've figured it out. I'm writing it because I think a lot of people studying ML hit this exact wall — and never see anyone admit it publicly. Most tutorials make it look clean. It hasn't been clean for me.\n\nThis blog is going to be exactly this: my real journey toward becoming an AI/ML engineer — the projects I build, the concepts I learn, and the ideas I want to one day turn into real things. Following along from the start, mess and all.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/chakradhar_y_7227/starting-my-aiml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain-1763", "published_at": "2026-06-27 16:14:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-27 17:03:36.573045+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "neural-networks", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Chakradhar"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/starting-my-ai-ml-journey-in-public-and-backpropagation-already-broke-my-brain.jsonld"}}