Rebuild micrograd: a scalar reverse-mode autograd engine

Write a tiny autograd engine from scratch, train a small MLP with it, and check every gradient against PyTorch and finite differences.

Not attemptedAndrej Karpathy (GitHub)Access: free

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The exercise happens on Andrej Karpathy (GitHub). Canonical link: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd. Link check: link responded (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

Supports: Backpropagation and autograd fluency for ML engineering and research interviews. Write your own version before reading the reference code.

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