# Jerry Liu asks whether a new method has killed backpropagation

> Original title: did we just kill backprop

- Source: Jerry Liu
- Published: 2026-11-02T22:15:02.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/hyewl9a4vy03405l60l8fcw6k
- Original: https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2117379988718788924

## Summary

Jerry Liu (@jerryjliu0) asks whether his team has just killed backpropagation, the standard algorithm for training neural networks. His post gives no details on the method, benchmarks, or results, and a quoted reply from another user only reacts with "wtf".

## Post

did we just kill backprop

## Quoted post @jerryjliu0

> wtf

https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2117342113738391692