"Starting My AI/ML Journey in Public — and Backpropagation Already Broke My Brain"

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 .
But one confusing topic at a time.

This 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.
I'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.

This 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.