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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…