Week 0, Building the Foundation
Launching the try.except channel and portfolio. Here's what Week 0 looked like, why this challenge started, and what Week 1 brings.
Week 0, Building the Foundation
The Challenge
This is Week 0 of a 6-month build-in-public transformation: traditional developer → ML Engineer + AI Engineer.
Every week: a system built, a model trained or agent deployed, a blog post written, a video published. In public. No hiding.
Why This Exists
The honest version: I came back from 18 months away for JEE, leaned hard into AI-assisted coding, and found myself shipping confidently at 30-40% understanding of my own code. I was getting the reward without doing the reps.
The full story is in the Week 0 video.
What Week 0 Built
- This portfolio website (Next.js 14, Supabase, Vercel)
- The try.except channel (YouTube + Instagram)
- The 6-month roadmap
The Rule
70% ML Engineering / 30% AI Engineering. Every week. No exceptions.
Stanford CS229 as the ML backbone. Real deployment. Real monitoring. Real evaluation.
Week 1 Preview
Training the first ML model. Adding it to this portfolio as a live demo. Understanding every line.
If you can't explain it, you don't own it.