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The entry-level AI market in 2026 is wild. Expectations for freshers are skyrocketing, and we’re actively competing against devs with 2 years of industry experience just for a foot in the door.
Like many others, I fell hard into the tutorial loop—watching videos, reading docs, and building isolated scripts. But tutorial knowledge completely crumbles when an interviewer asks you to share your screen and build something from scratch.
I got tired of the passive loop and the silent applications. So, I’m changing my approach. I’m done consuming; I’m building in public.
I’m working on an end-to-end AI Research Analyst Agent designed to break away from linear tutorial pipelines. I'm actively exploring:
Parent-Child Chunking for ultra-precise data retrieval.
LangGraph to build cyclic self-correction loops (grading hallucinations).
PostgreSQL side-by-side with ChromaDB to persist the agent's memory state mid-loop.
I don’t know every line of code by memory yet, but I’m learning by building.
Check out my full architectural breakdown and raw journey on Medium: https://medium.com/@khandalejuee/ai-research-analyst-agent-agentic-rag-building-beyond-tutorials-part-1-78ed62e59e41
#AI #GenerativeAI #Python #LangGraph #PostgreSQL #BuildInPublic
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It's an app for designing what your AI agent or bot looks like. The theme was "build interfaces that feel alive," so I made something where anyone can pick a body, face, head, and aura, name it, give it a personality, and watch their bot come to life. All with zero code.
How I built it with Stitch:
I started from one prompt describing the idea, then built it up conversationally. I added native motion (the bot floats, blinks, and powers up), an animated shader nebula background, and hover states. Whenever something was off, I didn't touch any code. I just pointed at the element on screen and edited it directly, or described the change in plain words.
What I loved: when it's done, Stitch lets you publish in lots of places like Google AI Studio, Figma, MCP, Bolt, Lovable, or Netlify. I chose Netlify because it's so easy to deploy on the web. One click and you get a live link to share.
Stitch features showcased: native motion, animation and shaders, in-place AI edits, and publishing to Netlify.
As someone who can't really code, Stitch never made me feel stuck. It turned an idea in my head into a real, interactive product in a single sitting.
Try it and design your own agent: https://meetmyaiagent.netlify.app/
Walkthrough video:👇
Built with @stitchbygoogle https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/6351891533339790820
Fun idea. Giving people control over the personality and appearance of their AI agent makes it feel much more personal than a typical chatbot experience. Curious which customization option people seem to spend the most time on?
I explored a different direction for the challenge:
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As a one-man business, I wear every hat at once.
Which gets overwhelming, and messy. So I stopped posting for a while and started building. Mission Control, the system that keeps WonderLoop running.
How it works now:
• I say an invoice needs to go out.
• The invoice gets made, all the right details filled in.
• A tidy draft email shows up, ready in my drafts.
• Then a ping on Telegram: ready to send, want to approve?
• I read it over, hit send. Done.
Behind every step sits an AI agent with its own job. One does the numbers, one writes, a third watches the whole thing. I'm always the final check. Nothing goes out the door without me seeing it.
A few hats off. Time left for the work I'm actually good at.
And now it's getting out of hand. 😅
Because I gave all those agents names. And faces. And personalities.
• Mr. Butterhead runs the show.
• Mr. Pennysworth handles the money.
• Jonathan Inkwell writes.
• And in the picture, that's Hawkeye Jenkins, my strategist. Full character sheet, his own personality, even a British accent.
Then it hit me: I've got a strategist "on staff" and I never asked him whether this post is any good.
So I asked him. What do you make of this, Hawkeye?
"Let me understand. In three months you've asked me nothing. And the first thing you want my opinion on is whether to post this. My advice: don't post yet. Let's build a strategy first, then post with intent. You're going to post this anyway, aren't you? That makes you an ask-hole: someone who asks for advice and then does the exact opposite. Go on then."
Next week, Hawkeye finally gets to work. I'll keep you posted.
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