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Pitch Perfect: Behind the Scenes of Building an AI Elevator Pitch Coach
When I first started sketching Pitch Perfect, I wasn’t trying to build another chatbot. I was job searching and wanted to see if AI could actually coach me and prepare me for the job interviews. Not just answer questions though, but listen, reflect, and help refine the most human thing we get to do with the interviewers: talk about ourselves. Those experiences became the seed idea for Pitch Perfect, an AI elevator pitch coach designed to help learners and professionals craft a clear, confident 60-second pitch. 🎬 Watch the early…
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Testing Lovable: Lessons from Trying to Build an AI Agent
September 2025 – Experiment Log I went into this test with a clear question:Can Lovable serve as a platform for building an AI-powered chatbot that retrieves answers from uploaded documents? What Worked Clean UI scaffolding: Lovable made it easy to spin up a front-end quickly. Uploading docs and connecting them to a chat interface was straightforward. Chunking/indexing pipeline: For plain text files (.txt), the ingestion process actually chunked content properly (e.g., my ORR refugee policy doc split into four neat chunks). Debugging support: Chat Mode let me peek under the…
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What Hackathons and Failed Prototypes Teach Us About Trust
Sometimes the way we communicate matters as much as the outcome itself. When I heard about the SheBuilds hackathon, I was excited. Alongside 4,000+ other women, I threw my hat in the ring, hopeful for a chance to build something meaningful with a global community of makers. This week, the results were announced, but not in the way you’d expect. I didn’t get an email. Neither did the thousands of others who weren’t selected. Instead, I found out from celebratory posts on LinkedIn by those who made it. First, let…